Word: studious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Headmaster McOrmond of Westminster School made the point that the Modern Schoolboy is more studious than his predecessors because of "better equipment, better teachers, more incentives, more interesting material to work with and a more interesting and exciting world ahead...
Even more than when they were schoolboys, the Old Boys (i. e. graduates) of U. S. private schools wonder what their old-time "Heads," "Doctors," "Prexies" and "Kings" talk about when they get together. The newspapers told something of the Princeton meeting-how the trip to England of the studious Kent School crew last summer was discussed; how Bruce Curry of Oberlin College lectured on "The Teaching of the Bible." It was easy to picture President Hibben congratulating Dr. William Mann Irvine of Mercersburg on that academy's new carillon. Exeter men could just see Headmaster Lewis Perry laughing...
Collier's magazine, where each season Mr. Camp's choices were published under copyright. Various newspapers hire a coach or groups of coaches to choose an All-American. Other papers make studious summaries of every All-American selection available and triumphantly weed out the winners. But it remained for the New York Sun to make the most determined effort. This fall the Sun scattered football writers everywhere: on the Pacific, in the Middle West, Southwest, South, Missouri Valley, and throughout the East; 129 elevens were examined...
...Author began her list of works with A Century of Revolution, which is not at all like either herself or her later writings, and in which nobody who reads her novels takes more than a studious interest. The Ladies of Lyndon, her first fiction, made small stir; but with The Constant Nymph there was a great roar of approval from critics and gentle readers. At that time Author Kennedy was not long out of Somerville College, Oxford, where she sang in Sir Hugh Allen's famed Oxford Bach Choir. Author Kennedy dislikes games & most violent exercise, likes swimming, dancing...
...there was born to the Rev. Lyman Beecher, a small contradiction, who was christened, after due consideration, Henry Ward. He was a contradiction because, although the son of a pious, even a studious clergyman, he spent his very early youth in moody or riotous behavior; his school work was invariably bad, his appearance and disposition uncouth, his only talents those of a buffoon. Later, still a contradiction, he spent his days in disseminating simultaneously the word of God and a most horrible scandal...