Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...headed disavowal of campaign enthusiasm. Even the Democratic party of yore would find it hard to sanction such a magnificent conception of neutrality and the "kept us out of war" policy. Here at Harvard where the dry rot of indifference has left untouched a flourishing forest of undergraduate political interest, such an outburst of nalvole would have been the signal for indignant letters in numbers such as to clog the columns of the CRIMSON from now until election day. Admiration is due the courageous decision of the Yale debating team to keep desperately on without betraying a sign...
Probably the most valuable books in this display, however, are the manuscripts of "The Rectory umbrella", and the "Mischmasch". The former is a little book done by Lewis Carroll while at Eton, charmingly written and illustrated, and of double interest because most of it has never been published. The "Mischmasch" was written by Carroll while at Oxford, and contains the first verse of his poem the "jabberwocky" which was not published until 25 years later. There is a translation of the words in the first verse showing how they were formed. As this has never been published, and explains...
...justifies itself; it voices a typical Harvard impatience, whether well or ill founded makes no difference, and directs a perfectly legitimate undergraduate criticism at a subject of undergraduate, and University, importance. Criticism of any kind is a sign of health, implying not only intelligence, which may be assumed, but interest as well...
Other lectures of Interest for today and tomorrow...
Meanwhile, for today the following lectures should be of interest...