Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...influenced the men who sat before him, not only instructing them from his wide knowledge, but inspiring them by his personality and leading them on to the more advanced fields of scholarship. Professor Parker loved the subject he taught, and what is exceptional, he was able to impart a like feeling of devotion to his students...
...Like all German political parties and social classes, the churches also, particularly the Catholic and Protestant, have stood together during the war. Let us hope that the union will last after...
...John Rush. He is learning all the time, adding to his already large stock of football knowledge; in fact, the things he is now learning relate not so much to the actual playing of the game as to the various outgrowing details, psychology, judgment of men, strategy, and the like. Every coach, even Haughton, will make a mistake or two each season. Rush's great mistake this year was in placing too much faith in certain individuals, in believing that men would come through in the big tests, despite their failure in preliminary tests. It is not likely that...
...Like many fundamental truths, the idea of "doing a little more than the job calls for" has become so disagreeably trite and familiar that it has lost all its meaning...
...either university the students who, like De Quincey, enter thinking of some obscure text of the "Parmenuides," must be rare. Scholars are consoling themselves over Cambridge, if we may believe a London weekly with the thought that students are told, "If you cannot read the Iliad you can act it." The pleasure of putting this into Greek verse might have compensated Porson for the blow the step would have struck him. --The Nation...