Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generally admitted that the future of civilization depends on the intelligent co-operation of the English-speaking peoples. Intelligent co-operation connotes some sort of knowledge and understanding of the other fellow's circumstances and point of view. That great American, whose memory every Englishman delights to honour, Walter H. Page, wrote in a letter published in his biography: "The ignorance, each of the other (i. e. the American and English nations) is beyond all belief." Strong, unqualified words coming from a man in the best position to form a sound judgment. Not one man in 1000 of either nation...
...your paper yesterday concerning a Harvard Scout Club. I, too, think it would be splendid, and I trust it will not be taken as an indication of a further militaristic spirit in the University. I am not a Scout myself, but I have had some experience with that sort of work in Geology 4 and 5, and I know some excellent hikes the club might take out towards Medford and Malden. I learned how to find the North Pole with or without a compass and how to crack rocks which should prove valuable if I ever get lost...
However, I think great care should be used in selecting the Youth's Companion for the Union Library. It would be too bad to start this thing with the wrong sort of person. EUOENE REYNALS...
...post-card questionnaires sent out to many undergraduates on the subject of a "Harvard Scout Club" have caused what might be called an ebullience of intellect. The wording of the postcards undoubtedly suggested the idea that the boys of Harvard were to band themselves together into a sort of picnic club that might appropriately subscribe to the Youth's Companion and pound rocks; but, as Mr. Kennedy explains, the sponsors of the movement intended no such thing. Since the Senior Picnic has been abolished it would be a great shame to institute another such custom. The sarcasm of our communicants...
...beginning of the next college year would also be a better time to start matters. Then it might be possible to get a contingent of college men to form a sort of scoutmasters club. They could easily study the scout manual, and read the Youth's Companion even, as preparation, and then come back to their college rooms and study the more common History of Florentine Art and the Police Gazette...