Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Culture then is the need of America, and classical culture is the only true basis of culture. Even so ardent an opponent of Greek as Professor Josiah P. Cooke, said no earlier than 1875, in his address opening the summer school of chemistry, that if he were compelled to choose, he should take classical culture in preference to what he called "science culture...
...liked to see the young fellows make a good hearty breakfast. If they did so he thought they were honest, hearty fellows, who were going on in the right way ; but if they did not make a good breakfast, he suspected them of an undue devotion to cigars and ardent spirits. This was rather a rough and ready way of arriving at an estimate, but perhaps he was not far wrong in the result. In this connection I may speak of another college dignitary who used to invite the men to breakfast. He only invited one at a time...
...these documents are, naturally, in portions, severely partisan and at times inconsequent, having been originally expressed orally at a public meeting; but that they are wholly absurd and readily fallacious in statement is hardly to be believed, even by one who has read them carefully and is no ardent extremist on either side. As regards this matter, I have already learned of one convert to protection having been made by them, and I hope that others will be induced to investigate further the opposing arguments of both parties...
...come somewhat prominently before the college world, and now seems in a fair way of active discussion, and perhaps of tentative adoption by the more prominent publications of our colleges. The Williams Athenaeum, the Michigan University Argonaut, the Amherst Student and the Cornell Era, besides the Acta, are all ardent advocates and promoters of the scheme, and with such a representative backing it would seem as though a successful issue might be looked for in the matter. In its last number Forney's Progress (Philadelphia) commends the proposal and says: "There are college papers enough undoubtedly to make a good...
...story is told in the Harvard Lyceum (1810) of a debate on the question whether an "intemperate use of tobacco or of ardent liquors were the more pernicious?" After a long and acrimonious dispute, the votary of Bacchus gained the victory by adducing the testimony of Scripture in support of his assertions : "Are we not told," said he, "that 'it is not that which goeth into the mouth which defileth a man, but that which cometh out of his mouth, this defileth...