Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...success of the project and the enthusiasm with which it has been hailed is due in large part to the good offices of Frank Ryan, newly appointed publicity director of the H. A. A. Mr. Ryan has been exceedingly careful in all his preparations and is even now experimenting with various devices for the improvement of the announcing facilities in the box. His hearty good nature and warm cordiality have made dealings between the papers and the A. A. a real pleasure, and everybody who is interested in receiving the Harvard athletic news promptly, accurately, and completely owes...
...fact that undergraduate feeling, in general as well as in the particular instance of football, is almost universally grossly misinterpreted must be taken into consideration. Students seldom reach the heights of enthusiasm about anything, and they never stay on those heights for long. Whatever minor evils it causes as a temporary distraction, football certainly does not have and never can have a great enough hold on the undergraduate permanently to warp his point of view or seriously to interfere with his education...
...exploits of a youth named Lawrence Cohen Jr., a recent convert to the doctrine of Socialism and president of a coterie of Harvard students who have embraced the same questionable policy serve to illustrate not only the enthusiasm of youth but may also indicate the lengths to which a thirst for notoriety and public notice will oftentimes carry a person of otherwise commonsense mind and motive...
Investors' enthusiasm for Dedi was not shared by German bank clerks. The great Deutsche Bank operates branch offices in 174 cities, has 14,000 employes on its payroll. There are some 50 branches of the Disconto Gesellschaft, a personnel of 7,000. With the announcement of the new merger came news that nearly half of these branch offices would be closed, in the interest of economy, some 2,000 employes of the two banks discharged. Dedibank was more thoughtful of its bank directors. The complete boards of both of the merging banks will sit at the meetings of Dedi...
...early and not unexpected success of the experiment was due in part to the enthusiasm with which it was received by both students and tutors of the Dental School. The adoption of the new system has tended to widen the scope of dental study...