Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...education, to take an interest in public affairs. They need not run for office. Often more good can be done by helping others into office than by being a candidate one's self. The great assets that they and younger men bring with them to their work are enthusiasm and a belief in ideals. Their service will be of assistance to themselves as well as to the public. It will broaden them and open their eyes to the hardships and struggles going on in thousands of homes to earn a sufficiency for existence, it should teach them to appreciate...
...delegates will be sent to New York Saturday to confer further with General Wood and report the enthusiasm of the University in the matter as evidenced by the number of men who have enrolled by that time. The committee will hold a meeting tomorrow night to discuss the practical problems of the plan and to instruct the delegates who will consult General Wood...
...there is to be any enduring progress, it is imperative that younger men do not lose their originality, and enthusiasm for new ideas. In an institution such as this, where the stuff of life is thought, such intellectual relapses and stagnation are least excusable. Nevertheless, the University is situated in one of the few localities in this country in which a newspaper can advise its readers to be content to peg along in the world...
President William T. Foster '01, of Reed College, pertinently criticizes American college education under the title "Vicarious Thinking" in the New York Nation. He charges the undergraduate with intellectual sloth and the educational system with failure to awaken in him enthusiasm for ideas. This is not an occasion in which the college man should jump into the breech and unqualifiedly defend himself and the system under which he works. It is doubtful if any undergraduate can be found who, if complacent in regard to his own spiritual and intellectual condition, is satisfied with that of his fellows. Many students...
This critic has stimulating criticisms to make in regard to the danger of an "academic mind" among professors, and concerning the system of intercollegiate athletics. Most imperative, however, is the need pointed out for an awakening of intellectual enthusiasm. And this cannot be adequately done by our present lecture-ridden system...