Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...machinery to students both of modest and of extraordinary capacities; the problem of Freshman acclimatization, of effective operation of the plan of distribution, and many others hardly less significant. The recommendations embodied in the report represent the product of five months' work by the first student committee of the sort ever to be created at Harvard. As such they deserve and will receive the fullest consideration by undergraduates, members of the faculty, and alumni...
...Bunk" Sirs: In TIME, March 22, under MEDICINE, appears "Virile Lorenz." I do not know how much -* and - -* paid you for this sort of "bunk", but I do know that I do not want TIME any more. Kindly take my name off your list of subscribers...
Stout blows were struck last week on all sides of the one issue which generates passion of every sort-personal, economic, religious, political, sociological. Up in Michigan, the 21 young spinsters of Kappa Kappa Gamma of Adrian College reported to the Dean that ten of their men friends had done a little drinking at their sorority dance. Proclaimed the spinsters: "We, the members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority, hereby go on record as being opposed to the use of liquor in any form, and we furthermore state that we believe the ten boys who attended our dancing party were...
More than that: the final value of the new tendency cannot be estimated from debates of this sort so accurately as from argument over the usual type of question. If debate on propositions of a serious nature derives new yigor from these experiments with humor, and questions of importance can come to be presented in a more keen and pleasing manner, the art will have been greatly refined. Many steps forward have been taken within the last few years by recognizing the important role of wit in debating. Therein lies the true worth of this less solemn tendency. Dwight...
Most organizations at Harvard eventually become clubs of some sort or other. The gregarious instinct does not bow completely to indifference. And a collection of people interested in a critical appreciation of the theatre becomes a Theatre Goers' Club and loses itself in refreshments and parliamentary law. So the Debating Union is not singular in becoming extinct as a factor in University affairs while it strives to furnish the college litterateurs with a raison de parler...