Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sitting Bull"). From "The Ghost of Gough Street" and "Shakespeare and the Old Vic" one gets a faintly disturbing impression of anglomania, soon dispelled by the mordant judgments of "Are Comparisons Odious?" (on English lecturers and tailors, French politeness and libraries, American politicians and platitudes) and the warm enthusiasm of "Change Cars at Paoli"† (on historic spots near...
...those mediocre courses which are at once the curse of the University and the backbone of its moderately high level of instruction. There is a bewildering mass of miscellaneous facts to be mastered which from their very nature can not be too systematically coordinated. The course will provoke enthusiasm from those few who have a decided bent for this sort of thing and from the rest the semi-boredom with which the majority of students always regard a course so conducted as to demand much memorizing at the expense of creative thought...
Biology 1 will provide everyone who takes it with a conversational knowledge of such popular topics as evolution, heredity, and parthenogenesis; and to those who like it, will impart an enthusiasm for biological science which will probably lead to further study in the field. Those who dislike it will do so because an occasional lecturer becomes unduly technical, and most of all because in the laboratory they will be forced to spend countless weary hours drawing unimportant pictures of bugs, leaves and frogs' legs with absurd minuteness. The limited conception of the scientific method which they may gain thereby could...
These courses are listed for "undergraduates and graduates". This indicates an exceedingly faulty estimate of Dr. Magoun's character on the part of the authorities of the English Department. Although still a young man, he has already pursued scholarship to the point of pedantry, and shows so great an enthusiasm for the mechanics of literature,--bibliographies, card catalogs, and philological dictionaries,--that he seems to have lost any love for literature itself. Doubt- less a valuable aid to graduate students in their highly technical researches, Dr. Nagoun possesses none of the qualities necessary for a teacher of undergraduates...
...finest thing in the Freshman year, if not in the whole College,' said another. The instructor is on his toes with enthusiasm; every session is an inspiration. I wouldn't miss it for anything...