Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disagree with those who think you show courage in publishing the letters of criticism and cancellation which come to you. As a matter of fact, most of them are so obviously unintelligent that they answer themselves rather cruelly. Published without comment, they constitute a sort of subtle flattery of your more discriminating readers and become highly suggestive of the desirability, from and advertising standpoint, of your remaining circulation...
Basins. A sort of dry-reservoir idea is proposed in a system of basins-stretches of lowlands bordering the river and surrounded by levees. These basins would be dry land in normal times, at flood period an opening would be made in the levees and the basin flooded, thus taking up some of the overflow. These basins could be owned by the Government and rented out for private farming with the understanding that they would have to be inundated in flood time...
...invitation went to Dr. J. Gresham Machen of Princeton Theological Seminary last week, the sort of an invitation that could have only caused more embarrassment to an already harassed...
...necessity, there is a very marked opportunity of intercollegiate relations of the highest type. A joint glee club concert does not even imply competition. The highest degree of cooperation and a friendly spirit between two large groups from different institutions in practice, would be the result of this sort of intercollegiate contact...
...Harvard there is a student loan fund of a sort, though obsecure and difficult of access to the uninitiated. The tuition at Harvard is already high enough in comparison with state financed universities and many smaller privately endowed colleges, to make such a fund indispensable to the man characterized by Dean Jervey of Columbia as "the man with brains and character but without means". The tremendous increase in the number of young people desirous of a university education makes admission requirements a necessity, but a high tuition covering expenses should not be included among such restrictions. Tuition fees should gradually...