Word: enjoyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of the Dartmouth Outing Club. It has been often told how through the efforts of this group the Dartmouth undergraduate was persuaded to leave the warm stove about which he had formerly clung from December until April and to take advantage of skiing conditions that few other colleges enjoy. Then came the development of the unique Winter Carnival and the formation of a winter sports team, and Dartmouth became known as an "outdoor college...
...popularity by infusing their entertainment with a Message. American Beauty's Message: from the mixture in the U. S. melting pot of inbred aristocracy and peasant stock will come a new & nobler breed. But you do not have to pay attention to Edna Ferber's Message to enjoy her story...
...finished pupils of these exclusive "public schools", if ambitious for intellectual careers, passed into the two great universities, there to enjoy again the exclusive privilege of employing for their own development the unearned increment of centuries. Or if destined for the public service, naval, military or civil, or for the professions, they might enter upon their future careers directly from the "public school." And, to a surprising degree, they justified their special privileges, developing into ripe scholars, as profound and unpretentious, skillful and public-spirited political leaders, or as honest, efficient civil servants. As a result, England enjoyed and still...
American students are not in college because of a feeling that the education derived therefrom will enable them to build up a nation that needs their help. There is the feeling, all too frequently, that American luxury and case are here, and we are here to enjoy them. We have no Hitler organizing us to overthrow what is considered an inadequate governmental regime. As University students we are not organized into student Fascist societies, to whom the responsibility for building a nation is assigned. Few if any Harvard students, for example, are much distressed over the fact that...
...season is entirely unofficial, no stress is laid on batting and fielding practice, the sole purpose of the season being to enjoy the game, and to discover and develop, new material for the spring season...