Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current issue of "The Commonweal" states that "the greatest defect of the American colleges is that they teach rather than educate, and the general run of them totally fail to create a love of learning or an enthusiasm for the higher life...
...Beane made the Phillips Brooks House what it now is. He was here long enough to have a policy and to develop it. Before him, we had had some Secretaries who gave only part time work, and no Secretary who remained more than two years. He gave himself with enthusiasm to the task of organizing the constituent societies into one whole, the Phillips Brooks House Association, as it now exists. He did it with tact and patience, with real appreciation of conflicting points of view. No one who does not remember the old situation can realize how great a gain...
...Foches had long been in the wool trade. The grandfather, Dominique Foch (1733-1804), in addition to increasing his fortune from wool, had busied himself giving practical expression to his enthusiasm for Napoleon, after whom he christened his son (Marshal Foch's father) Bertrand Jules Napoleon. Foch pere did not continue in the wool business but, as the French say, entra dans I'Administration; in other words, he became a civil servant. In 1850, having married Marie Sophie Jacqueline Dupre, he was appointed by President Louis Napoleon Secretaire General de la Prefecture at Tarbes. Next year...
Ferdinand Foch did not revert to the wool business, but he shared his grandfather's enthusiasm for the great Napoleon whom he was never tired of studying. From the days of his early education at the lycee de Tarbes until his actual entrance into the Ecole Polytechnique at Paris, Ferdinand Foch studied hard to become a soldier...
Ubiquitous optimism is at times depressing. Nevertheless a diversion from the cynicism and satire of numerous contemporaneous works is not unwelcome. It is, therefore, with considerable enthusiasm that we welcome the "glad girl" back to Boston. The piece is refreshing. Its sincerity is as welcome as it is undeniable. We might even suggest that its presentation is not altogether ill-timed...