Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...astute observer once remarked: "No man is a hero to his valet." Disillusioned feminists have substituted the word "wife" for "valet." Not so Nathalie Sedgwick Colby, who last week uttered an enthusiasm: "He is my husband; he is far too colossal a person to be encompassed in any single book...
...step in that direction was taken by Director of Athletics William J. Bingham when he announced that before the final game with Yale each year other games would not be played as fixtures. Different colleges are to be taken on. But Director Bingham will have to instill enthusiasm into class and dormitory teams and put everybody into football who has an inclination to play it, in order to carry out the Harvard policy. President Lowell does not go to the heart of the subject as does President Faunce, but the President of Harvard labors under one great disadvantage. The desire...
...highest standards of college athletic sport. Mr. Hallowell, has from his undergraduate days onward been widely known and honored beyond, as well as within, the immediate circle of his own university. Mindful of the mutual interests and purposes which Mr. Halloowell served with high integrity and generous enthusiasm, the representatives of the Yale Athletic Association join with gratitude in commemorating his distinguished service...
...social unit of the future must be the pair, man and woman forming a complementary personality. It is unfortunate that the author, after posing the question so carefully, in a beautifully written book of such symmetrical structure, has offered his solution in too great a hurry with too much enthusiasm, with a too easy utopianism. This fault, which ran all through the "Goose Man," is a mark of immaturity, not of the author, but of his generation...
Italia Virile. Lest little Rico, Tito and Beppo grow up without proper enthusiasm for black shirts, castor oil and kindred masculinities of Fascism, they shall no longer be taught important subjects like history, literature and philosophy by women, but by men only, "in- spired and animated by strong, virile sentiment." So announced Professor Pietro Fedele, Italian Minister of Education, who last fortnight weeded out many a college professor and high school teacher possessed of un-Fascist sentiments. Elucidation: "Observation has demonstrated that women lack enthusiasm for philosophy, which they always seek to tincture with religion. They cannot write, and history...