Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could retain the fervor and devotion that our young men displayed in the war, and which they would put forth again in a national crisis; if we could retain that spirit in the slow, hard labors of peace; if their exaltation should never fade in the light of common day, we could be the greatest people that ever dwelt upon the earth. This is not to be achieved by men's comparing themselves among themselves, or measuring themselves by an average standard; but by living up to the best they know and measuring themselves by their own highest aspiration...
...these days of scientific fervor which have produced exhaustive charts and maps, even for the winds and stars, it is a difficult matter to play the role of a Marco Polo. Yet in this the guest of honor at the Union tonight has succeeded completely. He has explored unknown polar regions, discovered new peoples in new lands, and upset traditional theories. What more adventurous than to spend five years in the far-away North of the world, and then return with amazing information after all hope had been given...
These are grave times for true Liberalism. When the fashionable fervor of some undergraduates draws the admission that Liberalism is a curtain behind which they conceal the propagation of plans for radical action; that there are only two parties to the struggle for "domination," viz., the Conservatives and the Radicals; and that the Liberals drift a vacillating course through the wake of the struggle of the first two, it is time it be understood what Liberalism is. The knowledge may serve the purpose of showing the folly of the juvenile antics of those anaemic undergraduates who parade to class with...