Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such an exemplar, is gone out of college professors in these days of alumni control, teaching unions, mass education. Survivors of Yale '83, for instance, recall how they were circularized their senior year with copies of The New York Tribune in which was marked an editorial attack upon the ardent young free-trade professor: "Men who are really able are not often inclined to substitute insolence for argument, "? They recall his reply: "The protectionists get lachrymose. . . . They sigh to think that young men are growing up who assail political saints and economic quacks...
...Story. At the end of this book, two portraits hang in an old city house. Out of one frame, in white muslin and blue sash, looks a beguiling red-headed Civil War nurse as she was just before she sacked an Italian count, married an ardent young mechanic and quit her patroon relatives to live in the young West...
Being one of the charter subscribers to TIME and one of its most ardent admirers, I feel justified in writing to correct a misstatement appearing on Page 20 of the issue of( May 11, just arrived...
Scarlet, the token of Theology and Divinity, is the Church's hue for ardent love and zeal...
From his own pulpit, the new leader looked upon the faces of ardent friends. Some had known him from childhood. For Dr. Coffin?a descendant of Commodore Vanderbilt?is that rara avis, a genealogical Manhattanite. Graduated from Yale at the age of 20 with highest honors, he struck out from the ancestral paths, plunged into the ministry, and was soon conducting services in a shoddy room above a fishmarket. His first pulpit was an unadorned wooden plank. His call to the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church followed years of slumming. This Church soon came to have the largest Presbyterian congregation...