Word: avidity
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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...
Burns, the nimble Harvard center-fielder, continues in his avid quest of forbidden bases. With 26 successful attempts to elude the vigilance of opposing catchers to his credit, his total of stolen bases is within one of that of all the rest of the Crimson speedsters...
...associated with. He listens to lectures, absorbs concerts, and delights in the exhibitions of art which frequently claim his attention, but rarely does he step out of the role of listener and onlooker. Lectures without examinations or section meetings engender a feeling of passivity in the most ardent and avid pursuer of learning. Partly to break this habitual receptivity of mood, partly to vary the monotony of merely sitting and listening the Vagabond will attend the discussion of "The solution of factory conflicts by cooperative action" which Mr. Smith is conducting in Social Ethics 9 at 9 o'clock...
...avid press dragged in the school or college affiliation of every unfortunate creature who tired of life during the week. The "wave" rolled strongly on. But not every one remained oblivious to the fact that schools and colleges were implicated very faintly if at all in a condition long evident in the U. S. Professor Herman Harrell Home of New York University ventured to say "that there are less suicides among college students than in any other class." Well might he have added that "the inquiring spirit of the youth of today," as he called it, operates quite as violently...
...imitations have grown more commendable ever since. Another chapter solves problems for young-marrieds, with a five-year program for feathering the nest. All that is (see adjectives above) in chintzes and cretonnes, flounces and hangings, locks and latches, cupboards and clapboards, rugs and roofs, has passed beneath the avid eye of Decoratrix Seal. She has torn down old houses besides building new ones and adapting odd ones. She has lived thoughtfully enough to know that "simplicity" must never mean discomfort. Aesthetically the book parallels the current literary renaissance of early America. If widely read, it should speed the arrival...