Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good measure to stimulate interest, to secure a wider participation in political affairs. When I was at college the fashion used to be to indulge in torchlight parades, marching right into Boston. Perhaps this has become old-fashioned now but it was a great way to arouse enthusiasm. The Republican Club has taken the lead in securing a really first rate speaker, when they procured Mr. Mondell. I think the other two organizations should do the same, that is, get a man of national prominence to make an address...
Arrival. Premier Saad Zaghlul of Egypt arrived in London to confer with Premier Ramsay MacDonald upon the Sudan dispute. At Victoria Station, he and Mme. Zaghlul were hailed with enthusiasm by Egyptian students who lustily cried: "Long live British Democracy! Egypt and the Sudan for the Egyptians! Representatives of the British Premier and Foreign Office met the Egyptian Premier; Londoners gave him a quiet, but friendly, welcome...
...problem deals not primarily with students, but with instructors and principals. It is they who are responsible for the high or low standards of the institutions over which they preside; and since they are men, and not children, some more compelling means of reawakening their enthusiasm in their work must be discovered than engraved silverware and artificially focussed applause...
...disappointed to find its facilities so antiquated and inadequate. After two years of world as stage hand and actor, however, I realize that the "47 Workshop" is not a place, or equipment, or even an organization, but one man--Professor G. P. Baker. So inspiring and persistent is his enthusiasm that not even obvious non-cooperation can check his efforts. He will go on anyway...
Political enthusiasm is at a high pitch at Wellesley and a series of political meetings is being conducted by the Forum. Last Saturday Miss Zona Gale, well-known authoress, made an address in favor of the La Follette movement...