Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rally is the first one since the football mass meeting last fall, and it is expected that in numbers today's parade will nearly equal the gridiron demonstration. The successful rally of two years ago was held in a steady rain and with fair weather today even more enthusiasm can be expected...
...methods of teaching. The time is soon coming when innovations in the curriculum will not be imposed upon them without conferences, when they will retort with "tu quoque" to the professor, "if we study badly it is because we are taught badly," "If we have no intellectual enthusiasm it is because your teaching is mechanized," "If we despise research it because of your own attitude toward it," "If some of you gentlemen with Ph.D.'s showed any real enthusiasm for research we might ourselves respect it more." "We know what an interesting lecture is as well...
...writer the movement seems wholly good if the professor recognizes the situation in time. The student's questioning of the value of religion in daily life is equally to the good if church leaders recognize the situation in time. All these revolts and objections are evidences of keen intellectual enthusiasm, of the discovery that participation in the real life of the world is much more fun than playing with the ephemeral ideals of the campus...
...accomplishments of the Eastern Inter-collegiate Newspaper Association Conference at Dartmouth over the weekend are such as to commend themselves to student thought generally, but with varying interest and enthusiasm. The agreement facilitating news exchange reacts first of all upon the papers themselves, while the question of over-emphasis on football has now become in the popular mind one of method and degree. But the decision reached at Hanover to give publicity and editorial attention to the National Student Federation strikes a note of especial importance...
Cleverest of sales arguments is a convincing proof of some point that needs no proof at all. The fuddled buyer, agreeing with the salesman before the latter has uttered a word, follows the ensuing exposition with delight, and his support of an opinion is quickly turned to enthusiasm for a commodity. No modern corporation has used this sales method with more humorous ingenuity than Colgate & Co., soap makers. Up and down the land, in all the better magazines, Colgate & Co. has suggested that shaving is sensible and whiskers are silly. Last week, for its support of this curious view, Colgate...