Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Resolved, That in lamenting the death of a classmate possessing such qualities, not his numerous and ardent friends only, but we as a class must deeply deplore his loss...
...therefore open to exercise by the college athletic teams. The News takes occasion to boast that "there is no other institution in the country" which possesses "a strong enough love for their college or a general enough appreciation of her needs, to pass such resolutions." Some of our more ardent friends of the prayer petition are inclined to contend that in this very particular Harvard is still at the van, for by abolishing compulsory prayers, our athletic teams can, if necessary, employ the additional time thus gained in athletic work. But without considering the matter from so low a standpoint...
...fine, the custom is not only silly; it is unwise. I venture the assertion, based upon some knowledge of what I am talking about, that the most ardent imitators (who are always at a respectful distance) of English Society manners, are the ones sure to be most hopelessly left on application for entree to social life in England. In England the flattery of imitation is left to serving people; when it spreads to other classes, it becomes the subserviency of fools. Such is the tacit English verdict at all events...
...except after midnight and high marks. Archimedes was the very Bayard of grinds. But he ground himself into the grave. I remember once hearing that there are grinds at New Haven who are regularly summoned to the Yale "U. 5" for taking too many courses, and for being too ardent at their devotions in chapel. But as I have never been able to substantiate this, I fear that it is a lie. To return to archetypes, Cicero and Virgil were not grinds, but Epictetus was a grind. The lamp in which Epictetus burned his midnight oil is even...
...when with ardent vows, I swore...