Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...restlessness and an eager desire to experiment are tokens of returning health, then collegiate debating has shaken itself free of the lethargic morans associated with the post war years. For several months Harvard has been experimenting cautiously and with some success with the Debating Union. Now Dartmouth and Yale simultaneously announce startling departures in American college debating procedure...
...students spent two very illuminating days in Shanghai. They came in to China with a confused idea that we would be in the midst of war's alarms. Instead of that we found order, peace, and a cordiality so eager and genuine that we carry away from Shanghai some of the most impressive memories of the cruise. Here, as in Japan, we find a devotion to education which surely must be significant of the intention of these ancient people to meet the West with western methods and western understanding. As one student expressed it, 'The manner in which these Chinese...
...introduction, M. Lichtenberger absolves Nietzsche from all responsibility for the World War. Here as elsewhere, it seems that the author has failed to reconcile the contradictions in the philosopher's doctrines, so eager is he to have us admire his Dionysian god. Briefly, the expositor shows Nietzsche as an excellent example of his own theory that a philosophy is primary an expression of the philosopher's personality. At first a pessimist because he was sick in body and mind, Nietzsche conquered the fear of pain by sheer willpower, and became thereby the greatest of optimists, which means, according...
...well known that they have become the standard tocsins of educational reform from coast to coast. The Transcript is eminently right, and if, in its editorial, the second point is so little clarified as to appear inconsistent with the first, that condition may fairly be ascribed to the eager haste with which the writer has rushed to the support of measures which have been written and agitated for so extensively during the past decade rather than to any immaturity of understanding in educational problems...
When he was young, no doubt, his first toys were those aggravating, unforgettable picture puzzles, pieced together at great pains, and taken apart in a twinkle so that the eager child may begin again. His whole consciousness has been colored by these toys, and with painstaking care he puts together arbitrarily Jig-sawed pieces of cardboard until finally the completed puzzle with all its pieces showing stands out in its utter unreality...