Word: zest
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...that many of us, instead of returning in the fall rested, and braced for a year's work, find hard study even more irksome than before? Is it not because, instead of seeking change and novelty during the vacation, we live very much the same kind of life, the zest and tonic of a little study being removed? The student who spends his time entirely among our fashionable resorts, loafing, and playing the gallant to the same ever-present fair ones that throng our assembly-rooms and concert halls in the winter, becomes, through long nursing of his ennui, even...
...with his garlands of myrtle, adds to our merriment's zest...