Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...January Honor List was a disappointing affair. It had been prophesied that the Marquis Curzon of Kedleston, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, would receive a dukedom, but nothing of the sort occurred...
...from and took his post graduate work at Yale University. For a time he was assistant editor of the Yale Review. During the War he was busy with liaison work. His books include discussions of the short story, a novel, Our House, collections of essays and editions of one sort or another...
Some of these stories are not what is generally considered nice. Stories of suppressed eroticism, of girls gone wrong and that sort of thing, told with almost Biblical frankness, can hardly fall to startle one now and then with bald adherence to reality. Sometimes one is offended. But these are not the only themes. The most delightful parts of the book, from our own point of view are those concerned with horses and racing which the author appears to love so genuinely. His dedication to Dreiser shows better than anything else his appreciation of horses. "To Theodore Dreiser, in whose...
...greater chance than he has had before to use the tools which he has gathered. In graduate work of most kinds emphasis is placed on theses, and reports, and individual work done with the aid of these tools. "Research" is little more than original work of the same sort. But if the name "research" were connected with this new system it would sound ominous to the undergraduate. Hence this compromise between the examination and the report is as yet nameless, and has not been widely advertised...
Plans for the Sophomore Blue Book were announced yesterday afternoon by G. D. Debevoise '26, editorial chairman, and E. W. Marshall '26, business chairman. The Blue Book, published for the purpose of binding the class more firmly together, is a sort of supplement to the Freshman Red Book and was revived by 1925 last year. It will be given free of charge at the class dinner...