Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reading knowledge of French and German ought certainly to form part of a liberal education. It is invaluable in the advanced study of history, philosophy, and literature, and is indispensable in the pursuit of science. The present required training is insufficient to be of any real use, but with a little supplementary practice in reading, a working knowledge of these languages may well be obtained...
...looks on college as a pleasant interlude between the seclusion of his schooldays and the prosaic realities of a business world. He hears too frequently that his undergraduate years are to be the gayest and freest of his life, and he does not hesitate to devote them to the pursuit of pleasure. This undergraduate is, fortunately, one of a rather small type, and his ideas of fun are frequently strangely perverted. In consequence, he accustoms himself to much that as a graduate he intends assiduously to avoid...
...college Mr. Bangs took up the career of an author, and has produced many humorous books as well as several farces and musical comedies. Among his best known works might be mentioned "New Waggings of Old Tales," "Coffee and Repartee," "A House Boat on the Styx," "The Pursuit of the House Boat," "Ghosts I have Met," and many others of the same character...