Word: faustian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newsreaders know, last winter was the time when college boys, inspired by a dark and Faustian hunger, killed themselves by dozens. They know it because every time any college student committed suicide, the fact was bellowed from the front page of every U.S. newsheet. In a period when news was scarce, space was filled by the details of an imaginary "epidemic." Editors soon came to believe in their hoax and wrote articles showing how too much philosophy was being inserted into callow brains. Educators were faced with a grave dilemma, when it seemed probable that the death rate of colleges...
Ulrich on Hutten was one of those men who formed the bridge between the Humanists and the Reformers of the early sixteenth century. He was a strange sort of a man, a genius with a Faustian passion for knowledge, a poet with a high ideal of a knightly national regeneration, whose golden dreams were yet all strongly fated to turn to dust and ashes. Buffeted about during his short and stormy life, diseased and almost friendless, he possessed at his death only the clothes on his back, a bundle of letters and the pen which had won him a place...
...average freshman set adrift in the larger seas of college and university life falls a ready victim of the banalities of collegiatism and athleticism, and slides along a year or two, treating his courses as a necessary evil. And it is only after long exposure to scholarship that a Faustian thirst for knowledge begins to inflame...