Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mahmood is an ardent advocate of the League of Nations and has written several articles on this subject. He believes that, although the United States may not be inclined to join the League in its present form, she could officially join certain activities of the League immediately...
...whereas we all welcome the ardent loyalty to the home team which intercollegiate competition engenders, lot us remember that true sportsmanship involves the ability to see this same quality in one's rivals. --"The Tech...
From various bits of evidence, and the reports in the university paper, we managed to piece together a plausible story. The society seems to have been composed largely of men who bore a grudge against someone; for example, ardent sun-worshippers would often join it because they believed it would be a means of punishing moon-worshippers; and similarly moon-worshippers would join in the hope of vengeance on star-worshippers. There seems to have been no definite program, no set of principles which all members acknowledged, only the common tie of dissatisfaction and hatred. Many students in the university...
...statement that athletics "make" an institution and that reputation is based on athletic achievement are examples of the fallacies with which some ardent followers of sports have become bamboozled. Alumni demanding intersectional contests and winning teams at any cost voice the belief that no single feature is as important as athletics. From such beliefs spring situations like that which recently occurred when the president of a great eastern university was about to address an alumni gathering. He was asked by the committee in charge to limit himself in his remarks to fifteen minutes because the head football coach...
...starved woman to religion, whether the recent ascendency of Harvard on the gridiron is the cause or the effect of this "curious change", we can not say. But we trust that we will not be considered unduly optimistic if we suggest that after today Yale may be even more ardent in its wooing of the Muses...