Word: enjoyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should be obvious that both have a very proper place in the College. With the experience I have had in athletic administration I am convinced that the essential difference between the two is only one of attitude. We have no purely intramural teams at Harvard, because our intramural teams enjoy numerous informal contests with other institutions. It is equally true that many of our intercollegiate teams look forward to games with teams within the college. But the attitude of each group is quite different. The intercollegiate group is composed of what we might call our "A" athletic students. Performing well...
Unlike George Herbert Palmer who, locked in Appleton Chapel, attracted the attention of a yard cop from a high up circular window, the Vagabond settled down to enjoy himself. The arrangement of some of the books took his fancy. The Harvard University Publications, he found, were placed, appropriately enough, next to books on Games and Sports; while War Songs next to Individual and Individualistic Composers made him suspect that the world of music was not without its skirmishes. He discovered Manchuria defended only by Thibet, between China and Japan...
Whereas if he has no income apart from his business (like myself) a bookseller must live and make a profit, this end may be relegated to a minor position. A bookseller who is at the same time a book-lover and a bookman, may achieve a dual end; to enjoy his work and his association with books, and to impart some of his enthusiasm and what knowledge he may have to the younger or the less experienced. These objects if pursued make this the most fascinating of professions...
...book-collector is debarred from none of the joys. And though he may have less leisure to enjoy them, he has the added pleasure of being able to retain his prize, once it is captured, whereas the unfortunate bookseller must surrender it to the first purchaser...
...German audience, the lecturer said is cultured, and moreover discriminating. Its taste is such that it demands plays which are good not only today, but which have a dramatic and intellectual content which make them of permanent value. The Germans go to the theater to learn, not primarily to enjoy a spectacle...