Word: fervour
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Today, however, his discussions of over-emphasis, commercialism, and the harmful fervour of "alumnus fanatics" take on new significance. Meanwhile, the former All-American quarterback and captain of the 1931 Crimson eleven has become a distinguished hospital director prominent research doctor, and head of the Washington University Medical School department of medicine...
Nonconformists are handled equally harshly as "the Sunday edition of the Liberal Party"-and, like the Liberals, Nonconformity "has lost both its spiritual fervour and its political influence. . . . The young people of the class to which Bunyan belonged, [the class which produced] the Wesleyan local preachers and the Salvation Army [today] have no understanding of the possible dignity and beauty of life which Bible-reading teaches, and no appreciation of moral values...
...great need, as any corrector of examinations will assert with great fervour, is to teach students to organize ideas, to write with reasonable lucidity. Reading, of course, is necessary, but it should be strictly subordinated to composition. In the first semester in particular, it would be helpful to read fine models, such, for example, a chapter in Travelyan's "History of England", do a little correlated reading in the library, and then rewrite a chapter, not with the intention of aping the style, but with an eye to clear, precise, and thoroughly readable presentation of facts...
...stopped on the threshhold of a shining success by the lack of leadership. No one has stepped forward to take on his shoulders the flaming mantle of the great Jouet Shouse. In this crying wilderness no prophet has arisen to lead the children to the promised land with the fervour of the noble Alfred Emmanuel, or the disinterested spirit of self-sacrifice and public duty exemplified by the trible of DuPont...
Recommendations for the reform of elementary courses should be scrutinized carefully. Hardly a dissenting voice can be found among critics of Psychology A. Its context, assigned reading and lecturer are attacked with a fervour which carries conviction. Psychology is regarded as being over-technical and quite beyond the attainments of most beginners. There is practically unanimous opinion that reconstruction of the elementary courses is not some time in the distant future but immediately...