Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Modern Language Department has been the object of much experimentation in its undergraduate work. The tutorial system was first used to its fullest extent in this field; language requirements have been adjusted along more flexible lines, and some sort of effort has been made to cut down the amount of elementary work necessary. Adapted as the courses in this field are to outside reading assignments and critical reports, the Reading Period found its most general acceptance among them, while the other group has for obvious reasons been more conservative in its adoption...
...Crimson combinations rowed a steady 30-stroke beat most of the distance, with L. D. Parker '30 keeping the Ineligibles to an even 28 strokes to the minute. The weather conditions, even on the up-river stretch between the Arsenal Bridge and Gerry's Landing, were of a sort yesterday to afford a gruelling test for the oarsmen...
...recently preferred to say nothing, who has there been to forbid him? Even this right is at last being undermined; and, although no one troubles himself to answer the inquisitive Congressmen, there must be a little stir of uneasiness, foreboding the time when the voters themselves may ask this sort of question, and expect to be answered...
...convene in the office of the Business Department in the Crimson Building, 14 Plympton Street at 7 o'clock. The nature of the work will be explained and H. L. Harmon '28, present Business Manager, will give a short talk. The practical experience gained in a competition of this sort is of great value, both in college and in any field of business which the candidate may plan to enter...
...have been that college training is by no means necessary to business success, and some have gone so far as to say that it is almost a detriment. In contrast to the professions, it has been felt that a business career does not require intellectual keenness of the sort that colleges seek to develop in their students. In this connection, therefore, the conclusions reached by Walter S. Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, in an article in the current issue of Harper's Magazine are particularly arresting...