Word: enthusiast
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lapse of about two thousand years the Olympic games are to be renewed, in the interest of international amateur sport. The prime mover in this revival is a young Frenchman, Baron Pierre de Conbertin, who is well-known both in his own country and in America, as an enthusiast in athletic sports. He brought about the international athletic convention in Paris last June, the result of which was an arrangement whereby quadrennial meetings will be held, beginning next year in Athens. Besides all modern athletic contests an effort will be made to revive some of the old Greek sports...
Next to the priest comes the prophet. A prophet does not mean a man who does nothing but look into the future, for most of the prophets were very prominent men in their own time. Each one of them was an enthusiast who brought some special message or who instituted some needed reform. The prophets stand for just the opposite of what the priests do. Their work is to progress and to lead the world out of its old faults. So they are not in sympathy with the priests and the priests cannot understand them...
...interest in collegiate education for women, will enjoy an illustrated article entitled "Women at an English University," in which Newnham College is described, and the daily life, plan of work, exercise, etc., mentioned in detail. The author of the article, Miss Field, is more or less of an enthusiast on the subject of college education for women and the result is that her descriptions are vivid in the extreme...
James Savage was an enthusiast, modest, wonderfully attractive and of nobel purity and goodness...