Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...covered about 3000 miles during the tour and ended up with a lot of enthusiasm at Babylon, Long Island, September 11. When things were going rather discouragingly in the middle of the summer on account of the weather, J. L. Shuke, formerly of "47" Workshop, composed a ballad which we all added to and modified during the tour. It was sung during our wanderings on the highway and was really quite inspiring. Set to the tune of Columbia, Gem of the Ocean', it goes as follows...
...floodlight as the 1925 Spring production of the University Dramatic Club under the somewhat more exotic name of "The Moon is a Gong." Even though the character of the Girl in the Red Hat did not appeal to some of the patronesses, the University in general received it with enthusiasm. The New York production, under the same director, closed after a short run. It caused much comment, but the box-office, one hears, failed to do its part...
...Pilsudski, to the satisfaction of many a Pole, countered by assuming the Premiership himself. Significance. The new Cabinet was generally hailed with relief by the press of Warsaw as "a strong Left Democratic Government . . . the strongest Ministry assembled in Poland since the re-establishment of Polish independence [1918].- This enthusiasm was traceable in some degree to the satisfaction of wealthy newspaper owners at seeing in the Cabinet these potent monarchist landowners MM. Nieza- vytowski and Meysztowicz. Paradoxically enough the Socialist news- paper Robotnik (the Workman) founded by Pilsudski a decade ago was loud in condemning him last week for taking...
...situation is hardly one calculated to inspire enthusiasm. Harvard debating remains, at its best, a training-school for Langdell Hall. And yet there seems to be no excellent reason why this should be the case. One flurry of last fall, when popular interest was seized literally by the horns, was enough to prove that we are not congenitally unforensic, that we are capable of that collective adventuring along paths somewhat dubiously intellectual but undoubtedly attractive which lies at the heart of the Cambridge or of the Oxford Union. And it is hardly to be said that we lack that intellectual...
...disadvantages of salary and public prestige under which teachers work, has parallel only in the difficulty which students face in working under them. One cannot speak in these terms of the man who treats his students to his own enthusiasm. It is, however, only repetition to say that this is not commonly or clearly done...