Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spite of our thoughts being over ninety per cent. Military, back in our brains lodges a remembrance that we must not forget our Keats and Shelly. Their influence is a more permanent one than the Infantry Drill Regulations, and we shall gladly receive an ardent disciple of theirs in Cambridge...
...play becomes rather noisy and boisterous as it progresses, and then suddenly veers off into a sentimental channel with ardent wooing on board a steamer bound for Bermuda. Of course when we are in December sanity we would not stand for such stuff, but right now when the very essence of June is within us, we can go to Ye Wilbur and laugh heartily or sigh and pray to some god to put us on that steamer. The ankle in question is at all times lovely, and it is the most prominent part of the rather confused plot...
...longer can undergraduates bewail the unbearable condition of indecision that has existed for the last two weeks. After careful deliberation the Faculty has passed a splendid resolution which will satisfy the most ardent militarists and most zealous patriots. Harvard men can feel assured that their University is still keeping far in the lead and giving the Government greater assistance in the task of training officers than it has ever asked...
Last night at eight o'clock President Wilson delivered a momentous address before Congress, advocating that a state of war with Germany be declared. Congress will necessarily support the President and pass Congressman Flood's resolution, and by this action it will be fulfilling the ardent desire of every patriotic citizen. After the formal declaration will come the call for five hundred thousand volunteers, additional recruits for the navy, and then the marshalling of the nation's resources for the successful combat against the Hohenzollern government of Germany...
...Revolutionary period there were only about one hundred and fifty students enrolled in Harvard College, most of whom were very much younger than the average college man of today, but no less ardent in their love of liberty. General Washington first took command of the assembled troops of New England before the walls of Harvard College, and later the soldiers were quartered in the dormitories. During this period Harvard was moved to Concord for fourteen months. The Faculty did all they could to help the officers, and so appreciated General Washington's work that after the evacuation of Boston...