Word: studiousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this moment adorns the garages and boulevards of Cambridge because he prefers the broad highway to the gridiron, or diamond. It is easy to see that the automobile owners at Harvard come, as a rule, from the wealthier prep school element, since high school men being more studious have less time for joy riding. It is in the prep schools that athletics are compulsory and it is from there that most of Harvard's great athletes come. You will find, therefore, that the prep school man who now sports a car around Cambridge not only went out for athletics...
...anger. Editor Henry Louis Mencken had delivered himself of another diatribe on U. S. journalism. Once a newspaper man himself, Editor Mencken now looks down upon his former fellows and their calling with scorn and impatience. His tirades are bitter, egregrious, painfully penetrating. They are the firebrands of a studious but inactive idealist...
...studious, used to roam the streets of his native Bloom field, N. J., reading a book. At an early age he attended grade school, migrating later to high school, thence to Rutgers College, where he is yet known as the most brilliant scholar who was ever graduated there. The legal profession then claimed him and Mr. Gilbert went to Harvard Law School, was awarded the degree of LL.B. cum laude...
...will be recalled by old playgoers that just before Mine. Eleanors Duse was playing her first season in Little Lord Fauntleroy, Harry Pratt was playing the part of a girl in the Pudding. Studious application to his art has done a lot for Pratt, and he is now cast for the female lead in "Who's Who". He will probably not open in the Boston performances, where the Watch and Ward Society, though quite, is still looking out for the morals of the young. But he is grand...
...spite of the attacks on him, Governor Wood observed a studious neutrality during the election. Because of the Collectivista appeal to racial prejudice, it is considered that the outcome is no very great defeat for the Governor...