Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...road of his life and grew just as easily to fame, not many of his enemies could refuse to admit the brilliance of his intellect. He was learned in an exceptional degree, courageous in his opinions and could do three ordinary men's work with comparative ease and great enthusiasm...
...KING IN THE MAKING.-Genevieve Parkhurst-Putnam ($2.50). A biography of the Prince of Wales written with enthusiasm by an American. Despite some blunders, a number of princely cliches and a great deal of sentimentality, the book is not without merit as a romantic narrative of the Prince's life...
...open treatment of subjects which have too long been obscured by superstition, ceremonialism, and sheer mummery, appeals to the critically-minded undergraduate. There is a feeling about Fosdick's work that he preaches nothing that he does not believe. He has been received at the University with an enthusiasm which perhaps has added to the sombre conviction that Harvard is a college of atheists...
...programs for the current season of Mr. Arthur Whiting's Expositions of chamber and classical music have been so interesting that at the request of the CRIMSON it seems worth while to make a definite review of the compositions presented. Although the enthusiasm of the students and their attendance are almost back to pre war standards, there are a good many undoubted music lovers in the University who do not yet appreciate what a remarkable opportunity these Expositions afford to become familiar with a great variety of classical and modern musical literature. And as the Expositions are supported so generously...
...nation: "Dr. Eliot is a leader and a prophet of the people in the true sense. His primacy in all educational reform, his interest in adjusting the equities of the laborer and the capitalist, and the useful candor with which he points out the shortcomings of each, his abiding enthusiasm for the promotion of municipal governments in which the welfare of the citizen is most intimately bound up, his yearning for the enlargement of the lungs of congested cities in parks and playgrounds, his activity in the husbanding and preservation of the National resources, his patient, persistent, consistent advocacy...