Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This afternoon, for the first time since the Civil War eleven men from Florida will appear in the field against eleven Harvard men. On this occasion the Southerners are the invaders and their attack, however spirited, is looked for with eager interest...
Apparently Mr. Chamberlain and his associates are not too eager to have Mr. Lloyd-George take a much-needed, rest of this kind and today they will bring all their forces to bear at the Conservative meeting to hold the party true to the Coalition. If they fail and the DieHards lead in a march back to stricter party lines, the Prime-Minister has the alternative of joining the "Wee Frees" or of forming a new central party of his Liberals and moderate Conservative friends...
...adopting "a method of selecting candidates which in any way violates the principles laid down in the Declaration of Independence or the rights of American citizens as guaranteed by the Constitution". It is a serious thing, as he says, "to shut the door in the face of the eager, aspiring, earnest youth who has set his heart on coming to college...
...deep-loined West. He is quoted as saying: "The way Western young folk go after belles-lettres almost suggests that the support of literature in the future will come from those parts." It is a striking picture that the professor draws; this lust for learning this avid, eager eating up of elegance, this relentless pursuit of the humanities. With exultant whoops the Western young folks gulp minor poetry and major essays, studies, sketches, belles-lettres, no more than the snow leopard, the wildcat and lynx, can escape them. As the professor says, they "go after belles-lettres," do the Western...
...democracy to assume that the privilege of higher education should be restricted to any class defined by the accident of birth or by the fortuitous circumstance of possession of wealth, but there is such a thing as an aristocracy of brains, made up of men intellectually alert and intellectually eager, to whom increasingly the opportunities of higher education ought to be restricted, if democracy is to become a quality product rather than simply a quantity one, and if excellence and effectiveness are to displace the mediocrity towards which democracy has such a tendency to skid...