Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...found mental balance. It has been the constant stiffening of faculty requirements that has driven him into scholastic work to a degree undreamed of by a previous college generation. When it becomes necessary to devote the greater part of one's time to serious pursuits, then unstinted enthusiasm in football must decline...
...Soares's further suggestion that College courses should actually be linked with particular activities and the problems encountered in the field be elucidated in the class room even less enthusiasm may be felt. It is not the fact that the college newspaper teaches journalism or the Dramatic Club acting that makes them valuable; it is the fact that they afford some little contact with the problems of doing things in general. And on the other hand the more contemplative training of the class room can only furnish a general background of knowledge the immediate and specific application of which...
This revival along with many others such as the English Madrigal Singers and the numerous societies for the restoration of buildings of architectural and historical interest, shows to what proportions the enthusiasm for the past has grown. Nor is this movement confined only to research in the work of former times. Frequently, in the last few years, organizations have been founded to preserve the characteristic art of the present time...
...said: "I weigh 120 pounds when I'm before the public and when I'm not it's nobody's business." She did not hurry out to Chicago for the great opening night, having contracted to sing in Philadelphia and Manhattan first. Her latest enthusiasm is one of Mr. Insull's "office boys," a young man named Hamilton Forrest who, unbeknownst to Mr. Insull, composed an opera and threw himself, as many other youths have done but without his languid charm, upon Miss Garden's bounty. "He is di-vine!" she says, kissing...
This is a red-letter week for the Vagabond. The season's first appearance in Cambridge of Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra is sufficient to evoke enthusiasm from The Vagabond, who has not forgotten the first of the series of concerts which have periodically relieved the strain of a pedestrian education. Thursday's program from Beethoven. Stravinsky, and Tchaikowsky holds a pleasant promise to carry over the last stretch of hour examinations...