Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eaton, head of the tutors in the department of Philosophy, brings up in the columns of today's CRIMSON the old and all important question of the final destination and purpose of Harvard's experiment with the tutorial system. As in the case of all large experiments of this sort involving first a sharp and radical change followed by a long period of slow evolution, the tutorial system is an off and on issue with the general undergraduate public. At one moment it is acutely aware of the existence of the tutorial plan; then follow varying periods of apathy...
Last week Mayor Smith & henchmen held a rally. Stated Mayor Smith: "I am Wet and do not believe any sane or sensible person believes the Prohibition Law can be enforced in great cities like Detroit, Chicago and New York. . . . The whole thing is the rankest sort of a joke. . . . The rottenest hypocrisy...
...other hand, is a man of 45 with a young, sad face, the face of an esthete. His attention has generally been focused on the theatre which he now reviews and ridicules in the pages of three separate publications. He has also published The American Credo, a sort of joke book full of the nonsensical notions which U. S. citizens supposedly accept as fact. Some of these notions are merrily apposite; most are mere fictions invented by Author Nathan who sometimes (as above) seems capable of falling into his own babbit-snares. Most of his other numerous opera have dealt...
...finest tribute one university can extend another is in voluntarily subordinating its own pride of tradition in deference to what it considers a prior right. To the Indiana athletic authorities goes the credit for an action of this most graceful sort. Through their courtesy the older Crimson will appear on the field next Saturday. Indiana gains in popular acknowledgement of a thoughtful gesture, what she has willingly for saken of her own tradition. Harvard extends its admiration to a chivalrous rival...
...short span of life has been a stormy one of decided ups and downs. On occasions it has reached high peaks of success, on others it has plumbed the depths of undergraduate neglect. Its sponsors and members have gone sturdily forward in the face of the most discouraging sort of apathy, and in spite of repeated disappointments have kept the idea alive. Such is the early history of many a well conceived and worthy enterprise. The CRIMSON believes in the ideal of University thought expressed through the medium of debating. The expression of opinion, verbally and in public assembly...