Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appreciate your difficulties. When you went up to Amherst* last fall, the people of the college and of the neighboring town of Northampton and of Smith College for women were eager to see you. They asked you to parties. You politely accepted. A brilliant student might have attended all the parties in the neighborhood and still passed all his examinations. But you are not a brilliant student...
Etienne Clementel mounted the tribune of the Senate. . . . There was eager attention. First, he announced the obvious fact that France had erred previously by placing too much hope in German reparations payments. Then he warmed to his subject. He pointed out that many of the bank notes now in circulation were being hoarded by the people, advocated a new note issue to replace the old. He pointed out that, before the War, the note and metal circulation was 11,500,000,000 francs; that, since the value of the franc...
True. It is quite impossible to put art up in pills and administer it to eager young pupils. But a school of the drama is concerned with technique. Technique is a means toward expression. Technique is simply how best to do it. If countless ages of men have done a thing before, and if hundreds of those men have done it supremely well, is it not reasonable to suppose that there is a great deal to be learnt from a study of how those men have done...
Both views are at once right and wrong. Ideally, of course, Harvard should be a place where men eager and even determined to acquire knowledge and wisdom are brought into personal contact with teachers eager to instruct and determined to avail themselves of every art to stimulate and aid the intellectual advancement of individual students...
...Recently, reports from San Diego, whether originating in the fertile brain of the press, or having some basis in fact, related how the great warships of the U. S., plowing the Pacific, encountered a school of whales, and, eager to find targets for their gunnery, released from their guns the steely messengers of death. The aim was true. Fragments of cetaceous blubber bounded high in the air. The school had learned its lesson. And The Christian Science Monitor commented: "War preparedness is bad enough in itself without adding thereto such barbarous activities...