Word: zestfulness
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...Lampoon added to the zest of yesterday's CRIMSON initiation by incarcerating several candidates within the Mt. Auburn street tomb, and keeping them there for a few hours during the afternoon. The candidates reported a very decent time. Their hosts were considerate, serving tea and toast, and making every effort to be agreeable...
...student was called, following the practice of the English universities, "Dominus" or "Sir," a title used at Harvard as late as 1790. Many students then became Resident Bachelors, studying for their second degree. A majority of these appear to have devoted themselves to the study of astronomy with particular zest, for out of 44 almanacs issued in Massachusetts before 1682, all but three were prepared by Harvard graduates. Later almanacs by Harvard men were issued in 1690, 1691, and 1694. From 1709 to 1716 Edward Holyoke, later president, prepared a noted series...
...subject in a sprightly manner. He obviously aims at novelty of expression, and sometimes hits the mark. The author of "The Best of It," has, on the other hand, conspicuously failed. Turning to the morally pestilential life of a certain watering place, here called Nouvean Isle, he recounts with zest an incident which, though improbable, might have been made amusing. He is, however, so lacking in narrative skill that at the critical moment he does not present his leaf-clad personages vividly. Occasionally,--for example, when dwelling upon the physical peculiarities of middle age,--he comes perilously near coarseness. What...
Here deeper thoughts will sometimes flow, And Harvard's Past set hearts aglow With zest to add to the valiant row Of her royal fellowship...
...loved the art of words and the appearances of life," he once wrote, and in this sentence is contained the answer to the question. He was peculiarly a word artist, a writer of surpassing skill in rhetorical effect. He "loved the appearances of men"; he had a keen zest for romantic adventure, a keen curiosity concerning the lives and characters of men, and, above all, a sensitive appreciation of the romantic in scenery and history. The one weakness in his work arose from the way in which he learned to write. It was his habit to attempt to copy...