Word: fervor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...suggestion of "unscrambling" the classics, we would be only creating another chaos. Specialization in a certain field is, of course, of importance for the graduate student. But I cannot see how an undergraduate can enjoy Virgil without learning to appreciate the language, the rhythm, the imagination, the patriotic fervor, and the human characteristics of the great poet, whose vitality cannot be extinguished even by the wave of our modernism. We must not make Tacitus merely an object of linguistic or literary or historical study to a man who reads him for the first and, probably, for the last time, simply...
...thirty years has been one of the greatest blessings of our College,--sweet and wise,--Dean Briggs opens the number with a talk about the Chapel, even better and more compelling than the good five-minute sermons he so heartily commends. "A Senior" writes with genuine and convincing fervor of the opportunities for service that Phillips Brooks House offers, incidentally showing one of the advantages of the city college over the country college. It is to be regretted that in his fervor his rhetoric and coherence suffer, and he fails to attain the standard of the Illustrated, as set forth...
...shows how the unsurpassed fervor of our patriotism is an absolute necessity in binding together so many races into to persistent nation, but points out a national indifference to the affairs, feelings and treasures of Europe, which seems to be a protege of this patriotism...
Miss Glaser did well in a rather limited part. The singing was above the comic-opera average and the scenery unusually attractive. The audience applauded with a suspiciously professional fervor...