Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...others in this quintet, it would be folly to say that their suppression is evidence of any deepseated revolt among college students. Harmless satire bordering on bad taste is not sufficient proof of a revolutionary spirit. Satire and parody do furnish evidence of mental alertness of a critical disapproving sort. If the offended and offending college publications prove anything at all, it is that there is present in many students a vague consciousness of emptiness in American life which the colleges are falling to fill, and of an incompleteness of development which education is falling to correct; and this dawning...
...University will be represented on the committee by G. M. Carnochan '14, the other members being Alvin Devereux and F. S. O'Reilly. A first and a second all-college team will be picked and it is possible that some sort of match may be arranged between the first team and a civilian team later in the summer...
Just as the head of the religious life became a figure in public life, subject to extra-mural demands of every sort, to which he was more and more required to give his best energies, so the head of the educational foundation of twentieth-century America is continually drawn outside of his institution and into the general life of the community. . . . He is in demand for addresses and speeches on all manner of occasions, academic and non-academic...
Such students have received severe censure at the hands of Ruth Steele Brooks, writing in the May issue of Scribner's who says: "Often the greater part of the student's day, aside from classes is spent in some sort of meeting, or preparing for them, meetings of departmental clubs, with programs, papers, and refreshments (someone must make arrangements for these things) or committee meetings over student government, to mention but two possibilities...
...This sort of student is in truth found upon every campus: he is a parasite to the attainment of ideal educational conditions. Yet, as Miss Brooks says, the work must be done, and since this is so, it should be distributed over the whole student body in order to prevent any one student from losing sight of the real object of his being at college. If he does this, he hurts the university morale. On the other hand he may be helping himself, for by serving in these ways, he may develop himself better than he would did he become...