Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past and now I think even less of it. What's the idea? Do you suppose anybody cares a "Whoop" what books your smart aleck book editor considers "the cream of the season's books"? There never has been a magazine that could get away with that sort of stuff...
Born in New Hampshire, that cradle of millionaires, politicians and farmhands, John Shedd worked on his father's nubbly acres until he was 17, then got a job at $1.50 a week in a general store at Bellows Falls, Vt. It was the sort of store that has been made familiar to everybody as a stage-set for dramas of New England-a long room with a stove in it, a few boxes of sweet crackers, a teamster or two, a cat in a chair, a dingy glass case filled with painted chocolates and striped stick candy. A bell...
...other hand there were no traces of that distressfully professional journalism which one finds so often in a magazine that cost thirty-five cents or half a dollar. The supplementary departments, too, he found creditable, the editorials, book reviews and theatre notes. But what interested him most was a sort of indefinable spirit in the magazine of gentlemanly youngsters interested in letters learning to write more than passably well...
...There are those who believe that college journals should confine themselves strictly to happenings within the college themselves, but I believe that there is too much general indifference to politics, and that if the student publications expressed their opinions on matters of political importance, more interest of a healthy sort would be aroused among the students, who are, after all, the voters of the future...
...especially when the restrictions on the power, which merely makes the "permission" amount to the right to bear tales, are so plainly outlined. That the students are better fitted than the college authorities to pass judgment on their associates is hardly possible, as they have no qualifications for this sort of work and are liable to influences of such a personal character as to make the question of right and wrong actually a doubtful one. Further, one hears of very few cases indeed of unjust dismissals from college and other punishments, and at a college where such did take place...