Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Julian Lowell Coolidge '95, Professor of Mathematics in the University, answers the question, uppermost in the mind of the Harvard graduate unmercifully harrassed with Class Gift and Endowment. "What sort of an institution is this anyway? How good a college have they got there in Cambridge? How does is compare with that college which we knew or thought we knew so well when we graduated, thirty years...
...wages of certain miners, in accordance with the variable base rates of the 1924 wage agreement, which is now continued under the subsidy. The miners, headed by "Emperor" A. J. Cook, incendiary laborite, obtained what they considered expert legal opinion, to the effect that no wage reductions of any sort are admissible under existing agreements...
Regular football matches are played off between Finnish and Russian teams. Otherwise, Russians must find competition, like capital, at home. The mass of the population seems to be undergoing "a psychological change very like that through which the luckier sort of European immigrants pass during their first five or ten years in America...
...Splendid courage, itself a sort of knowledge that the only things to be feared are ignorance and baseness in oneself...
...Temperance--not to be confused with a craven absence of one particular sort which now parades under the name--which proceeds from a knowledge of human nature and a power to control one's action upon the basis of this knowledge...