Word: fond
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...always easy to find the commonplace in that which a man knows, and to see in that which he does not know glamor and super-material beauty. Burdened by his own provincialism, which he considers cosmopolitan breadth, the highly (?) educated--in the bookish sense,--young man of America is fond of talking in an impassioned way of the infinitely superior knowledge and the supremely finer moral sense of all Europe. Any attempt to reply to such a point of view will receive a blank stare and the answer that your inability to see in itself proves the national mental inferiority...
...sanguine practical Democrat would admit of doubtful possibility, he arrives at a conclusion which condescendingly damns the whole University as an object of national ridicule. That Harvard has been damned before by more powerful and more virulent critics than Mr. Lazarus, and still exists in what we who are fond of her are pleased to believe it a most flourishing state, is perhaps some consolation...
...Heart o' th' Heather" may not be a lasting success, but it should give pleasure to those who are fond of the quaint and wholesome atmosphere of a Scotch comedy...
...American student, according to Professor Reed, has never been able to enjoy the privilege every foreign student possesses: the opportunity to find old books for himself, to browse about shelves untroubled by a clerk at his elbow. Although students here are as fond of reading as those across the sea, there are no counterparts in this country of book stores near Charing Cross, London, or those of Oxford and Cambridge, or the cases of books along the Seine. Here even the library stacks are closed to students, and yet one of the surest ways to become interested in books...
...Freshman class has not shown sufficient interest in the Gun Club. More candidates must report at once if 1918 is to be represented by a team. Freshmen are eligible to compete for medals awarded on a handicap basis each week. A man fond of shooting in the field will find his score materially increased by practice at the traps...