Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...truth it was probably this spring fever sort of thing which spoiled my critical faculty completely the other night when I dared the rigors of Radcliffe long enough to see Benavente's "School for Princesses". For I rather liked the way it was done. Of course the heroine's continual pegieggedness was a trifle diverting for one who wished to concentrate on her regality. And the court gallant, the Duke of Asperin or Whatnot, might have done a little less bubbling about and made a few of his words intelligible. Yet those are the things which give amateur dramatics these...
...maintenance and its organization demand patterns of thought and patterns of life, but it is only in the destruction of these patterns that a university can preserve vitality or realize progress. Such destruction demands as its major requisite a willingness on the part of the student to apply some sort of critical faculty to the patterns which are created for him. Even a faculty of iconoclasts may labor in vain, if its students are afraid to doubt...
...attitude toward education which has never failed of strong supporters. There is another kind, however, which admits as its primary aim the equipment of a human being with tested tools and a certain proficiency with which he may better realize his ultimate potentialities in life. That this latter sort is the kind which is necessary and desirable today is beyond dispute. Life is becoming complicated to the point where tools and selective judgement are vital. The medieval whose basic creed denied legitimacy to the temporal things of this earthly life could well afford to regard his education as something apart...
...Moody and Sankey.&$#134; "Though I am sure that they are very good and sincere people, it is not the sort of religious performance which I like. The sensational style of excitement like revivals is not a religion which can last and it is not wholesome for the mind or heart." After Charles Dickens' Funeral. "He is a great loss, for he had a large and loving mind and the strongest sympathy with the working classes." Telephone (1878). "After dinner we went to the Council Room and saw the telephone. A Professor Bell explained the whole process, which...
...alternative to myself. Professor Conant is lecturing in Fine Arts 3a at the same time in Robinson Hall on "The Derivation of the Christian Church." I have always had an idea that many architectural points in a Christian church could be traced back to nature worship of the crudest sort I would like to know about the origin of a church steeple, for instance...