Word: ardor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...instruction gave a position of unique distinction. He gave his hearty support to measures directed to the moral well-being of the students. He was an earnest advocate of his convictions, and steadfastly loyal to his ideals; nor did the unpopularity of any policy cause him to abate his ardor in its defense. His intellectual, as his personal, sympathies were wide. His glad recognition and generous encouragement of merit endeared him to workers in many fields. He was a just censor, a wise counsellor, not sparing of himself if he might help others. His critical instinct was distinguished...
...Harvard graduate, however little he may represent graduate opinion. A more inopportune attack could not have been made by the outside press. Undergraduates are ready to support their team in the face of an unfavorable outlook, and it hardly behooves a graduate paper to attempt to dampen their ardor by throwing cold water at the last moment. Ordinarily we should not call attention to such an article, but since this has come before the outside public, it devolves upon undergraduates to show by their attitude that this premature apology was neither authoritative nor representative...
...inaugural address expressed the hope that by means of the free election of studies each student would secure a curriculum, chosen with regard to natural preference and inborn aptitude. It was his aim to substitute small, interested classes for large, uninterested ones, and to foster scholarship by increasing ardor and enthusiasm in the college and by relieving the various courses of the presence of perfunctory students. The history of the system, however, bears out Professor Munsterberg in his statement in "American Traits," that two-thirds of the elections are haphazard, controlled by accidental motives. In 1903 the Committee on Improvement...
...Early in his career Mr. Greenough was impressed with the importance of Comparative Grammer, both in itself and as an aid to a student of the Classics, and he took up the study of Sanskrit with ardor. In 1872 he established the first courses of instruction in Sanskrit and Comparative Philology given at Harvard, and he continued to conduct these courses, voluntarily, along with his regular instruction in Latin, until the appointment of a Professor of Sanskrit...
...years went on, there arose the need of more compact church organism; for the early spiritual ardor was growing less, and strong authority was necessary to bind together the Christian church. The superintendence of the church's alms, the regulation of the confused church service, the need for some authoritative tribunal to exercise spiritual jurisdiction--all called imperatively for a more firmly established system. In response to these needs of the time, the clerical order did become more firmly established, and in the writings of Clement of Rome, within a generation after the death of Paul, is first prescribed...