Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...receptive attitude of mind is the chief essential of conversation. Possessing it, there is no reason why even specialists may not engage in conversation to the interest and advantage of either party. an attitude of intellectual receptivity is the really great thing which a college can give students. It is more than the essential quality of culture; it is the basis of civilization...
...most effectively when least conscious or deliberate in his teaching. With his flawless taste in letters, hew was the surest possible guide to his students. Always he pointed them surely and directly to the best. With a gift for whimsical humor to sharpen his judgement, he invariably carried the interest of his students with him where-ever he chose to turn the shafts of his penetrating criticism. Ridicule was his favorite weapon for the banal and he had no mercy for the pious shams, the stuffed dummies that persist in all literature. Always he was sane, sound and exacting. Thousands...
...realize what future generations of Harvard men are missing in his departure. Those who have not been fortunate to study under him still know the sympathy and the humanity of his interpretation of literature. Under his guidance students have learned to regard the masterpieces of literature with as much interest and intimacy as it they were contemporary fiction--the highest meed of praise. By means of his charmingly written books he has awakened a real love of literature in wider fields than the University. Perhaps his greatest contribution is his personal influence on the literary tastes of the present generation...
...enrolled in the class totalled 105 yesterday as opposed to 53 last year at the corresponding time. Such an increase in the number of men who have signed up, together with the large attendance at the meeting held in Smith Halls Common Room, is indicative of the increased interest in the undertaking. The class may continue during the spring months...
...occasion of the first anniversary of the organization of the Harvard Regiment the CRIMSON prints this morning the complete roster of its officers and members. This is the first time that such a list has ever been printed in its complete form and in view of the widespread interest which the Regiment occasioned, it seems fitting that on its anniversary some permanent record of its achievements should be made...