Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prominent feature of the college curriculum. Harvard cannot take her just position as a university till free opportunities of this sort are offered. It is true that Boston, particularly by means of the Lowell Institute, partially fills this field; but for the average student, and even for the ardent specialist at Harvard, Boston is practically inaccessible, except on rare occasions...
...freshman cries for justice. The idea that the details of the torchlight rush have been presented solely from a sophomoric point of view fills his ardent soul with envy and he calls aloud that his deeds may be set forth in undying print for the benefit of posterity and humanity in general and the edification of himself in particular. How the fence went down before the mighty onslaught of the '88 warriors, how the sophomore braves Lacked sand to begin the fight after the time-honored custom, how many of the latter were bareheaded on their return to the classic...
James G. Lathrop, a well known Boston athlete, has been recommended to the faculty of Harvard College as master of athletics at Cambridge. Mr. Lathrop has had a great deal of experience in preparing athletes for important events, and has always been an ardent admirer of athletic sports out of pure love of the games. He was one of four men to organize the Union Athletic Club, which gave the first impetus to athletics in New England outside of the colleges. When he was some years younger than he now is, he was known as one of the best...
...frequently said that athletic sports in a college are the best safeguard it can posses against disorder among the students. In the good time coming, when college athletics shall have been reduced to a perfunctory basis and shall have become as proper as the most ardent disciplinarian could wish, it may be found necessary to devise a substitute for them as a preventive of disorder. In the opening words of a recent editorial the Oberlin Review furnishes us a hint which immediately suggests such a substitute. "A few years since," says the Review, "the president of a neight, the guest...
Anthony Trollope, after relating how for twelve years his annual income from literature averaged L4500 a year, and how in a little over twenty years he made L70,000 by his pen, goes on to describe the result as "comfortable but not splendid." Trollope's most ardent admirer would hardly claim for him the possession of great or original genius, but I should imagine that in the opinion of nine-tenths of the readers of his autobiography he takes first place among successful men of letters, looking to success from the pecuniary point of view, and considering the quality...