Word: passion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fact is that at practically all our colleges the passion for athletic victories has carried expenditures to an absurd length. Head coaches are sometimes paid more for their eight-weeks season than a college professor gets for his entire year's work. To help him the coach must also have a regular squadron of assistants trainers and other subordinates, all of them drawing good salaries. No wonder it costs more to put one football gladiator on the gridiron than the average student spends in a whole year at college. Yet some of the institutions which can afford...
...story is woven about the lives of a husband and wife. The man is studious, shabby, caring nothing for appearances. On the contrary, his wife has a passion for society, and she succeeds through the overpowering strength of this passion in leading her man to a new mode of living. The latter unfortunately is too well received by society. He makes so good an impression that he is sought after by a married woman who is estranged from her husband. There-upon the wife becomes jealous, and finally repents that she has turned her husband into one corner...
...says much in its fourteen lines and closes with the memorable phrase: "And that to live at ease may be to die." Arthur Ficke has put into his "Irises" the sound of the "Passing water of the cool stream, Coming from afar," and leaves a faint impression of a passion for which the real Iris would be no solace. Augustus Lord's "By Autumn Seas" is a manly utterance on the old theme of world desolation and the comfort of "Love's dauntless cheer." Conrad Aiken has solzed perforce upon the poetry of the unpoetic in his "Vaudeville." He loves...
...country that should act on the proposal of a world peace. When the war is over, those nations which have been involved will not be ready with any such plans themselves, and the time will be ripe for the presentation of one. Individuals should keep up their passion for peace, and eventually they will be rewarded...
...central instincts of the human race. For the minister is par excellence the religious leader of the community and religion is one of the most serious, the most permanent and inclusive interests of human beings. The sex hunger, the desire for food and clothing the passion to understand ourselves and the universe in which we live--these are the chief motor impulses of our race, and the third is the most inclusive of them all. Religion is not the creation of a book or priests or governments of institutions. It springs out of the heart of our human kind...