Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Human nature, they say, is mere animal nature. A school of psychology, which regards all human behavior as mechanistic, gives them substantial backing. Then Freud, with his theory of the evils of suppressed desires, confirms their conviction that one can do no wrong if he follows his instincts. A sort of righteous zeal, therefore, inspires the modern crusade to let truth have its way and show things as they really...
...merit, and I find it always interesting. It publishes many illustrations in black and white, some of which are good and some of which are not. Its chief merit is that it is seldom dull-and I can think of. few better recommendations for a magazine of this sort. The Saturday Review is as authoritative as all followers of Editor Canby knew it would be. Its editorials are clear, its reviewers carefully chosen. Its essays, if somewhat academic, have a certain charm. Mr. Morley's "The Bowling Green"and Mr. William Benet's "The Phoenix Nest" recommend...
...have worked at the Lampoon long enough to know what a joke is," he declared. "But I think this is carrying a joke too far. I don't want people to think I am the sort of fellow to vote one way one day and another the next. I have voted the Republican ticket for 40 years...
...genesis of the college "bluff" has been traced to its remote psychological roots in the insistence throughout early education upon a prompt answer of any sort, rather than an honest "I don't know." The current Educational Review points out that a wrong answer counts no more against a student than inability to answer at all. From the beginning students are encouraged to write "something", whether they know anything or not. This dangerous facility is carried into college, and the student, trained unconsciously in this form of intellectual immorality, develops the art of bluffing to its highest degree...
...Alcove" is the name of the newest book store on the Square, where Harvard students may purchase the newest and the oldest works of fiction. The Alcove is owned by two students, Leon Sifschitz 1L., and Bernard Pincus '25. Every sort of book is sold except textbooks, and the proprietors intend to make the Alcove a spot where book lovers may browse about to their hearts' content...