Word: restless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...serious-thinking undergraduates become dissatisfied with college. Into the student's mind comes the question: "Just what am I proving here?" From this he argues that after all, the superiority of the college man is greatly over-rated. Life in the world calls to him and, like a horse restless to begin the race, he becomes impatient. At this period the student looks in retrospect over his first two years as an undergraduate, seeing in them either a failure to make of himself what school-day ambition carved or a disillusionment regarding the value of his activities, social or athletic...
...greatest influence over the masses, belongs primarily to the last group. He is a brilliant man, an idealist and an ascetic, who has given up everything for his cause, and in this light his words and his ideas carry great weight with the restless, uneducated class. His hatred of everything European leads him to advocate not only the defeat of British rule but the doing away with railways, mills. Western education and the use of a European language in India...
...reserve. His company supports him well, and his simple but ample scenery furnishes a very effective background for the play. The only noticeable weakness is in the last act, which savors too much of "and they lived happily ever after" for the American audience of today. The spectators became restless before the final scene was half over and many left their seats. Some heavy cutting of this portion of the play would be of value...
...Anyone who attempts to present a faithful impression of Alexander Agassiz's life is confronted with unusual difficulties, for his versatile and restless energy covered a very extraordinarily wide field and his personality was so large that we are hampered in our view of him by our own limitations. The morphologist considers his earlier work more important; the geologist, that his reputation rests chiefly on his extensive investigations of coral reefs; the zoologist remembers his vast collection of marine life, gathered in a dozen extended voyages widely scattered over the surface of the globe, and to still others, he appears...
...British government, as represented by Bonar Law, realizes that most Americans will take a "reasonable view" of all such propaganda. But the British government is becoming justifiably restless under the continued succession of insults and hostility from this side of the Atlantic. Nor will American, "reasonableness" sit idly by much longer. Those who would make of this country a "Greater Ireland" would do well to observe the signs of the times...