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...through one of two channels. The first has been in picking a subject of timely and intense student interest such as the football debate of two years ago. Enthusiasm was generated here by the presence of speakers, whose prominence in undergraduate affairs and information on the subject, added some zest to the occasion. The second successful method of attack has been to invite an expert or widely known speaker from the outside, whose appearance alone is sufficient to draw the crowd. The latter procedure, while of considerable value in itself, has proved a weakening influence on the primary purpose...
...would write a stirring editorial on our cheers. We have over and over again the same heavy un-Collegey cheer. "Yes, Harvard is too dignified to have a peppy cheer" I hear people say. Other Colleges certainly show far more the spirit of jolly College students and put more zest and snap in their cheering...
...person. President Green quoted him; quoted from a speech Mr. Young once made at Harvard, when Mr. Young said: "Slowly we are learning that low wages for labor do not mean high profits for capital. What we need to know is the limits within which men may work with zest, spirit and pride of accomplishment." Just as Mr. Young's speech had originally startled old-fashioned employers, by its proximity to Labor doctrine, so did the quotation of Mr. Young at a Labor convention startle old-fashioned organizers. Should this keep up there would soon be nothing left...
...daughter of one of the leading tribesmen, a girl of 16 or 17, undertook with great zest the task of instructing me in the vernacular. We would sit side by side for hours and a hundred times she would touch my eye, nose and mouth and each time I would have to repeat the native word...
Patience. Gusto and gay abandon are the birthright of the rollicking operettas of W. S. Gilbert & Arthur Seymour Sullivan. And while Vivian Hart as the saucy dairy maid, James Watts as the lavender Bunthorne and Joseph Macaulay as the poet Archibald, carol sweetly, they play with more diffidence than zest. A chorus even less frolicsome than the principals was likened by one reviewer to "a daisy chain of serious Smith or Bryn Mawr girls." The proceedings are applauded in genteel style by players in two stage boxes, outfitted in the costumes of 1881. For those who prefer emasculated albeit musical...