Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Those closest to him know Mr. Mellon not only isn't making any sacrifice but is having more fun than he has had in years. . . . Out in Pittsburgh, he was a sort of legendary figure. He was so completely protected by brothers, nephews and secretaries that no one outside of an exceedingly limited circle ever saw him. He appeared at no public functions, frequented no clubs, did no entertaining. He lived a hidden life and probably saw as few persons as any man in the country outside of a prison...
...younger and happier. The mere accumulation of money long ago lost interest for him. The acquiring of a reputation as a useful public servant does interest him a lot. Public service of some sort is all that is left to a man like Mr. Mellon. It may not be true, but it does not make him mad to say he is the 'best Secretary since Alexander Hamilton...
That there are men in Harvard who do drink is surely no new or cataclysmic discovery. This fact plus the opinions of Professor Cabot, gained from his investigations, are just the sort of news which the sensation-mad public devours so voraciously in print. Professor Cabot's conclusions, and he himself is the first to admit it, are drawn from answers to questionnaires which record mainly mere student impressions. The lack of accurate statistics is the very thing which is sure to be over-looked in the hourly extras whose headlines, in all probability, will shrill forth the blasting scandal...
...could be ascertained, the little book of sonnets has caused little excitement among the professors who are attacked therein, or among undergraduates. Books of this sort, satirising Harvard and Harvard professors, have appeared almost every year for several generations, and a good sized library could be collected from those among them which have been published during the past 50 years. Among the more famous on the list are "The New Swiss Family Robinson," published 50 years ago by owen Wister '82, and "Alice's Adventures in Cambridge," by Richard C. Evarts '13: The most recent book of this sort...
...have a mascot appears to be the foremost topic of the day on the Harvard campus. Harvard bemoans the fact that the followers of John Harvard have no bulldog, tiger, mule. goat, or bear to help the Crimson flash in triumph on the athletic field, and suggests that any sort of a screech, howl, back, growl, bray, bleat, or crow would suffice...