Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...usually grieve not because they have but because they lack great possessions, said Dean Fenn, and yet this clean, ardent, and dutiful young man who ventured to say to Jesus, and doubtless with entire sincerity, that he had kept all the commandments, was completely changed in his attitude toward himself and his possessions by a single sentence from the lips of Jesus. In considering the requirement of Jesus in this case, Christendom has unfortunately fastened its attention not upon the essential but almost exclusively upon the accidental element, for the point of his command lies in the "Come, follow...
...crying need for a new gymnasium stands the necessity of more improved land for the promotion of our ever-growing intracollegiate athletics. The increasing interest that has been taken of late in that kind of sport is a most healthy manifestation, which deserves, in the estimation of the most ardent supporter or the most vehement opponent of intercollegiate athletics, every possible encouragement. And yet, of Soldiers, Field only 24 acres, or less than half of its total area, are available for use. The cricket team was driven out of existence by the pressure of other teams, and worst...
...second article on this burning topic is the Editional, and it is a sensible piece of writing, whether looked at from the undergraduate or the Faculty point of view; for it will hardly be denied by the most ardent opponent of "two numerous intercollegiate contests" that in common fairness the large undergraduate body is entitled to know where it stands in fact, with respect to the sports in which it takes so deep an interest...
...University of Bonn. Permit me to express the hope that Professor Clemen's last days in our midst will be made particularly pleasant to him through evidences of appreciation of what he has done for us. Like Professor Kuhnemann, he has given his services with single-minded and ardent devotion to his students and with passionate zeal for the cause which he represents. Let us not be reluctant to make make him feel that his splendid work has borne fruit and that he has done a great service not only to his own country, but to Harvard University as well...
...Whereas, he brought to the Classics something of their own indefinable humanity and left his hearers with a sense that behind all the outward from of language and thought was life, strong, ardent, intense...