Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, the students of the Experimental College issued a booklet telling all about the first year. It breathed enthusiasm: "minds set free," "intellectual success." Dr. Meiklejohn added a cautious note: "the College is too young to be judged." But, said he, "As a venture in friendship the College has succeeded beyond all question...
...chairman of each delegation just stands up when his State's turn comes and announces or reiterates, "Transylvania-umpteen votes for Hooridge." Unless spectators have rare good seats, they hear little but the candidate's name, because all the delegates go on conversing, arguing or registering enthusiasm all over the pandemoniac convention floor. If a State's vote changes materially between one ballot and the next, the distant spectator will discover it, not through any change of expression in that State's delegates, but by cheers or booes from other delegations. The delegates whose votes have...
...Gilbert and Sullivan productions have been in Boston before, in fact they were here last spring when "Iolanthe" and "The Pirates of Penzance" were given, and at that time the enthusiasm was high enough. Now, "The Mikado" has been added and to us at any rate, it carries off the prize. Apparently some other people feel that way about it too, as it is being given all of this week and part of next whereas the other two are on but two days each...
John Dewey was setting out with his huge casualness "to have a look at Russia." Of course the news of his impending visit had elicited from Soviet Commissar of Education Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky a formal invitation and an expression of enthusiasm that the Second Confucius was coming. Comrade Lunacharsky is a Red, but he knows his Deweys. A dynamo of energy, he not only directs the Commissariat (Ministry) for Education, but writes plays, is President of the Moscow Society of Dramatic Writers & Composers, and acts as supervising editor of three Moscow publications: Novy Mir (The New World), Krestyanka (The Peasant...
...have to make sacrifices and maybe the banks also. For a bank it is better to have a live customer on the books than a corpse. Until you get an industry on a sound basis you cannot move forward half an inch and you will never get fresh capital, enthusiasm or anything, and nothing but ruin stares you in the face. No Government can help in this cutting out of deadwood...