Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suit has arrangements so that the diver can cast off his ropes and telephone cable and work freely, with ballast tanks which may be emptied by compressed air so as to enable him to rise to the surface and maneuver. Because the diver, thus converted into a sort of one-man submarine, is not subjected to high air pressure, he can rise to the surface rapidly without ill effects...
Today is the last day on which entries in the Union essay contest may be handed in. As announced last month, the essays may be of any sort and subject such as might be printed in a good magazine...
...importance. But meanwhile, this latest hypothesis may be useful in reminding teachers of children to save their major burden of abstractions for shoulders (presumably sixteen-year-old shoulders) that are quite ready to bear them; to keep their stock of complicated facts for hands that are skilled to sort them. By such a course, many a prodigy may be saved from himself...
...institution of "civics" classes in the grade schools. And President Goodnow, who has only recently seen the establishment of the new undergraduate department of Johns Hopkins at Homewood, complete with elaborate buildings, extra-curriculum activities and a rising football team, seems to be doubting the value of that sort of thing and looking toward a university of students rather than of people who go to college. There are plenty of places where people can be taught, but there are perhaps too few where a generation that is beginning to need it pretty badly can have new information and better science...
This letter is not anti-Baker, or anything of the sort. I am as sorry as anyone that Professor Baker left Harvard, and as glad that he is well endowed now and can go on with the will at Yale. But I do want to point out that there are two sides to the question, and to suggest that the President is rather a leader to follow than a man to criticise for incidents in which no blame at all attaches to him. Edgar W. Pangborn...