Word: studious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...love of liberty and freedom, his sense of justice, his strong intelligence, his studious habits and scholarly methods, all made it natural that he should exploit history and ponder the results until he had produced such work as his Cavour, his John Hay, his George Washington, his Theodore Roosevelt...
...marry Piozzi?Dr. Johnson's death?so run the four acts and among the actors are all the Johnsonian company, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Fanny Burney, Burke, Goldsmith, Boswell, Peg Woffington, down to Mr. Levett and even Bet Flint. An experiment comprising much diverting and edifying matter worthy the studious attention of all Johnsonians...
...most important factor in the term is, of course, the end of Term Examinations, when the unfortunate youth who has spent his time in pleasures will come the inevitable cropper, while the studious scholar will reap his expected reward...
...manifest itself? Should he stifle the matter-of-fact, practical ambition to "make the team", or "win the competition"? Perhaps the "student" has been undeserving of his name in the past perhaps he has been too much of a "college boy". But are not some of his "non-studious" activities worth something...
While the University, except for the organizations taking spring trips and those Seniors inspired by studious necessity, has been hibernating, the rest of the world has continued to keep the more or less even tenor of its way. All, that is, but the supposably "economic" conference of the nations at Genoa, which, during the past week or ten days, has passed from the potentially sublime to the positively ridiculous. What "might have been" an extremely sane and important conclave is fast deteriorating into a free-for-all diplomatic contest with no holds barred...