Word: avidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jesuit historian has recently called the early history of Harvard "one of the brilliant pageants of American history," a pageant of which the "real theme is courage and devotion; courage under conditions which would seem to stifle all human effort save an avid grubbing for food and housing, devotion to the fine ideal of disciplining the human intellect and human will." One might add that the courage was largely Dunster's, and in devotion no one was his equal. Harvard College might even have followed its founder to an early death and oblivion, but for the lively faith, the serene...
...chairman of the G. 0. P., arrived and also Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, chairman of the Platform Committee. To ensure themselves privacy, these gentlemen selected several rooms apiece in various parts of the town and familiarized themselves with unobtrusive entrances and exits. Senator Smoot wanted no interruptions from avid proponents of special doctrine, especially farmer doctrine, while he is phrasing the eternal principles for which the G. O. P. will say it stands this year...
Vincent Astor tutored valiantly to enter Harvard, whence after a year undistinguished scholastically, socially tranquil, he departed when his father disappeared with the Titanic. Since leaving Cambridge he has handled, somewhat gingerly, his huge heritage of real estate, an able but not an avid realtor...
...could retaliate with bitter jibes directed either at the morose undergraduate author or at the Alumni publication which would print such fiction. But after all this is merely another of those merry occasions which gather such enviable publicity for two great universities, and even an avid press might eventually weary of petty bickerings, founded on untruths. One might question the point or the intended moral of such noble statements as. "In New Haven one is often on the same terms with one's janitor as with one's rooms-mate." And one might try for hours to decipher the meaning...
With the appearance of the Senior Album and its individual Senior biographies, the collective characteristics and statistical pecularities of another Harvard graduating class are brought to light. The industrious compiler, in avid pursuit of the facts about his fellow students' existence, discovers what professions the members of the present graduating class intend to enter, how old they are, where they were born, and certain unusual conditions of their present lives. In other words he lays before us facts which differentiate this class from all others, and which should point out important tendencies of the present generation of college graduates...