Word: studiousness
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...spends most of his time in a quiet nook in the huge library. The socially correct element is the remnant of that Boston society of the last century that "sneezed whenever England took cold," although nowadays it is difficult to distinguish between the imitation and the real. The studious element speaks Americanese, is not ashamed of its local accent, and goes serious and unobtrusively about its business of obtaining a higher education...
...Post-War Period. After the "khaki elections" of 1918, he was made Secretary of State for the Colonies. He, studious Imperialist, had acquired an amazing knowledge of the Dominion Colonies and Dependencies. The War had convinced him that only by a system of preferential tariffs could the British Commonwealth of Nations be welded into an economic unity and, as in everything else, he never wavered in this conviction...
...regularly, in spite of the fact that the compulsory daily service does not, to use Milton's phrase, "dissolve them into ecstacies and bring all Heaven before their eyes." But what shall now be said for the sons of Nassau, whose feet have ever been forced "to walk the studious cloister's pale...
George Darling, a young and studious butterfly collector, is to be played by J. C. MacDonald '26, who was the leader of the Freshman Glee Club two years ago and who since then has sung with several of the college musical clubs. Abercrombie, his man servant, is played by J. H. Wright '25, the most talented musician in the cast. He is a member of both the banjo and mandolin clubs and an able performer on the saxophone...
...These are the saddest loking dummesehullen I ever looked down on What on earth made all these blank faces flock to my course? Last year's crop was a fine, studious crowd. Appreciative too: they knew a good joke when they heard one. They laughed every time I told it. But this bunch! Well, I'll have to get through the hour somehow. Then back to Boccaccio. Think I'll read over those passages in Rabelais again. Nothing like those fine old writers to make the fire of youth surge once more through these old veins. Hm-m time...