Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...history of the drama, but will be an added force in the study of English literature from Chaucer to Shakespeare. One can only hope that Professor Tatlock will find the atmosphere of Harvard a congenial inspiration to his ambition. He will be met with full courtesy and deep enthusiasm, for his proved ability will help to sustain the intellectual preminence of Harvard...
...house, however, he ceases to be of interest. He is given no idea of the problems he may expect to meet, and when he fails, as he frequently does from lack of experience or discouragement, not the slightest attempt is made to readjust him or to sustain his flagging enthusiasm. The Social Service Committee acts as a mere clearing station--not in any sense of a stimulating center of social thought. The hi-weekly reports which have been asked of settlement heads must of necessity be perfunctory, and in actual use have not served their purpose. Professional workers have time...
...open meeting in the fall, and hears nothing but luke-warm banalities from amateurs. Instead of vital information from recognized authorities, he is given unintelligent generalities by local celebrities in other fields. The meeting degenerates into a series of amiable but perfunctory talks, and the enormous reservoir of idealistic enthusiasm that moved the audience to attend is left utterly untapped...
...middle of nowhere and rambles through three quite amusing acts, ending in the air. Philip Tonge, taking the part of the husband whose imaginative wife becomes interested in another man, is well qualified for the part, and his portrayal of an absent minded professor was received with much enthusiasm. A long third act is made possible by brilliant dialogue and a comical drunken scene. At the end, the caste of five receives much applause from a well satisfied audience. The problem we expect to be worked out for us is left unsolved, yet we are not disappointed for the plot...
...buoyed up by the hysteria of platform idealism to undertake something for which he has neither time nor interest. Year after year, the high-sounding phrases of early fall fade along towards winter, into the stern reality of a dirty, noisy neighborhood house. Boredom takes the place of quasi enthusiasm and the student struggles painfully and hopelessly for a while, only to let it all drop in the end. He knows then, as others do not know, that the whole shining structure of Social Service is founded on pitiful sham and sheer impracticability. David Worcester...