Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have a new hotel, a $5,000,000 structure with 2,000 rooms, 25 stories high; down the block and across the street from The Blackstone, at the corner of Seventh St. and Wabash Ave.; and to be named The Coolidge. The President did not comment, but ardent Republicans felt it was an appropriate honor. The hotel is designed by its builders to be a moneymaker, not over-eloborate...
...Senate Mr. Edge of New Jersey, ardent wet, asked leave to have the Empringham statement printed in the Record, and Senator Willis of Ohio, ardent dry, said he would not object if Wayne B. Wheeler's answer were also printed...
...other deciding factor that has turned the students away from internationalism and hence away from the republic, whose most ardent supporters are mainly internationalists and pacifists, has been the unwise treatment of that republic by the former enemies, and above all by France and Poland. The "passionate consciousness of race and nation" so natural to educated young men and women has been outraged too many times. The invasion of the Ruhr was a tremendous victory for all those Germans whom Americans in general regard as "reactionaries," the shooting down of German workmen at Essen at Easter time...
Died. Dr. Charles Edgar Welch, 73, famed President of several concerns forming the so-called "Welch's Grape Juice pool"; at St. Petersburg, Fla., of acute indigestion. He was a lifelong total abstainer, an ardent exponent of prohibition, co-discoverer with his father of "the best process for producing an unfermented and non-intoxicating grape juice," trustee of the Chautauqua Institution of Chautauqua N. Y., six times President of Westfield, N. Y., "dry" candidate for Governor of N. Y. in 1916, one-time dentist...
Most undergraduates will probably find "The Old Dog's" current article a fair reflection of their own point of view. This attitude, as he correctly says, is marked by "an ardent appreciation of the human element in teaching and a bitter hostility toward the pedantic." College students are tired of having knowledge interpreted to them wholly in terms of the classroom as something having little or no relation to life. The pedantic professor who treats facts as dry bones is tolerated by his classes with the same coldness as he himself radiates. Such a professor seems to have forgotten that...