Word: casual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attractions are perhaps as many and as worth while as those which any other activity can offer. A year of this work will teach the student a good many things he can never learn in any college course. Through intimate contact he will learn, as he never could through casual observation, about the habits, opinions, and ideals of people of a very different economic status and education from his own. Besides this the worker has the solid satisfaction that comes from doing something for others. He has the responsibility of accomplishing his task well and the knowledge that what...
...First Casual Camp...
...should be kept in the reading room, with the hope that this room "would be resorted to by all who wished to know or write about him", and would impress the student body "with the full significance of a life with which they might otherwise have only it casual acquaintance...
...weekly is full of talk of Ben Jonson and Coffee House, of the Cock Horse and The Merle, of the inaccessibility of professors and the limitations of the 47 Workshop; casual varied and good-humored talk that exhales a faint eighteenth century aroma and is mildly entertaining. Its anonymity is qualified by the cautious statement that "the names of the editors will be given to anyone in authority on written application." Whether this refers to the Postmaster General or the Dean's office is not clear, but neither of them need be disturbed by "The Aristocrat," to judge from...
...courteous, and handled patiently the loud and persistent complaints of some of the unlucky ones. The locomotives that we saw here and elsewhere in Germany were remarkably well groomed, and seemed in excellent condition. The permanent way appeared from the ridding of the train, and from a few casual inspections to be in good shape. Of course we did not use the German dining service on this night journey, but it may be said that while the matter of trains is under discussion, that the food served there was plentiful and good, and that the requirement for bread-cards...