Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spur to Academic Excellence" is the caption under which the Pennsylvanian, the daily paper of the University of Pennsylvania, greets the new Harvard policy. Like the Princetonian, the editors of the Pennsylvania paper urge some sort of imitation at that institution. The editorial says, in part...
...better than they sing. From a purely auditory viewpoint the performance was scarcely more than worth attending. The eye, however, was caught, held and delighted by the perfect ensemble pantomime of the chorus, which lolled and sat about at various levels throughout most of the production, and provided a sort of "visual accompaniment" to the action which centred about the main characters...
...position of this sort requires a man who commands the respect of undergraduates, alumni, and Faculty; a man who knows athletics from the stand point of the competitor, the coach, and the administrator; a man who is enough of a friend of athletics to be the first to declare war upon commercialism and wrongful emphasis in intercollegiate sport; a man who is willing to devote himself wholeheartedly to Harvard for the building of the complete man. The selection of Mr. Bingham, or a man of similar qualifications, combining to an unusual degree all these abilities, would insure the success...
...likely to appear with that of Debussy or Stravinski; the formless needs a background of form to make it so much as interesting to an intelligent enjoyer. The barn-dances, upon which you dwell, are of course merely the play-boy accompaniment of a period and have a folklorist sort of interest; they are not justly taken as typical of the movement you comment...
...looked very much as if they would rather be doing something more difficult and more graceful. The old folks appeared as if they had never learned to dance at all, and therein lay the pathos of the whole exhibition. It was their patient, uncertain attempts to attain any sort of grace in their movements which showed conclusively that the barn dance is perhaps the foundation of our modern waltzes, but not their antidote. If such awkward jigglings be dancing, then make the most of them...