Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...philanthropic work of the Association is done largely through the medium of the Social Service Committee. This is composed--as are all other Phillips Brooks House Association committees--of students, and serves as a sort of clearing house for work of this sort. This year one hundred and sixty-one men are engaged in part time volunteer activities which vary from Probation Court work to Sunday School teaching. By far the greater part of the service is in the leadership of Boys' Clubs in Cambridge and Boston. Every year hundreds of Harvard men are leaving their stamp upon the lives...
...Wright in his "Portraits and Criticisms" asserts that "Mr. Gladstone...founded the great tradition, since observed by so many of his followers and successors with such pious fidelity, in public to speak the language of the highest and the strictest principles, and in private to pursue and possess any sort of woman." Gladstone's sons have retorted by telling Captain Wright that he is a liar; Captain Wright has delivered the last counter-check in suing the Gladstone. All in all it is a nice mess, and "the tight little isle" is much more wrought up about it than America...
Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin produced some curt prose worthy of his mighty father: "This document [Mr. Kellogg's Bolshevist evidence] is the flimsiest sort of propaganda. If it had emanated from any other source than the Secretary of State I venture the assertion that no reputable editor in the United States would have authorized its publication. It would have gone not to the composing room, but to the waste basket...
...woman in the world. But since this fortune derived originally from her husband, his widow cannot take rank among those women who made their money by their own unaided efforts. Most commentators therefore give the title "most successful business woman in the U. S." to a very different sort of lady who last week also appeared in the news...
...long been left necessary that some sort of report be left by the Red Book Committees for the benefit of the coming Freshman class which is in most cases entirely ignorant of the enormous task ahead...