Word: studious
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ability and industry and of a temperament likely to enable him to enlist readily the confidence of young men. I desire that the professor shall, by advice and by personal interest, encourage especially physical exercises and sports, and that he take particular care that undergraduates of sedentary and over-studious habits be made acquainted with the importance of physical recreation...
Then, too, the Japanese, Spanish American, Chinese, and even European students are peculiarly sensitive and retiring. Obliged to be unusually studious in their native countries, so that their minds are developed often to a pitch of intelligence and interest which would amaze native born students, they get little opportunity to exchange their ideas for what is of peculiar value to them; namely, opportunity for friendly association and converse with American students...
...story is woven about the lives of a husband and wife. The man is studious, shabby, caring nothing for appearances. On the contrary, his wife has a passion for society, and she succeeds through the overpowering strength of this passion in leading her man to a new mode of living. The latter unfortunately is too well received by society. He makes so good an impression that he is sought after by a married woman who is estranged from her husband. There-upon the wife becomes jealous, and finally repents that she has turned her husband into one corner...
...story is woven about the lives old a husband and wife. The former is a studious sort of man who dresses shabbily and cares nothing about appearances; the wife, on the other hands, cares a great deal for society, and finally persuades her husband to try the new way of living. The latter makes such a good impression in society that he is sought after by a married women, who is estranged from her husband. The wife than becomes jealous, repents of having urged her husband to go into society, and finally begs him to return...
There are certain noises which are inherent to the Library, I suppose, and which we will bear with, such as the musical notes of the steam pipes, the ceaseless tread of studious feet, or even the frequent invasions of murmuring visitors. But why not take radical steps, by means of new Library legislation, to suppress the alarming spread of the Forum to the precincts of the reading room? A. REEDER...