Word: passionate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...never been seen before in Cambridge? Add to this the pathos of those memories and in truth to day would be the history of Harvard for half a century or more, if we could but have omniscience and overhear all the talk, interpret every look and expose all the passion of feeling which will surround us throughout...
...production of plays by students is to be praised; as showing a movement in the right direction. Dramatic societies should not be scorned, however, they rend a passion to tatters. Education should join hands with elocution and thus repay to the theatre the inspiration which the theatre has long given to education. Elocution in its broadest sense applies to all those recreations of voice and body which arouse or exhibit the passions or any of our wide range of feelings. Without thorough training in these things, a man is not prepared to make the best use of his four years...
...exchange which has just come to our office contains the following paragraph: - "The Harvard student has a passion for attending fires, as is pretty plainly shown by the fact that over 200 undergraduates turned out at mid-night, and ran a distance of more than two miles across country to witness the burning of the great ice houses at Fresh Pond." This statement is, in a measure, a true one. The Harvard student, as a rule, does display a great fondness for conflagrations, and his encouraging presence does much to promote the efficiency of the work done by the Cambridge...
...touch of truth and feeling rare in our college papers. The only other prose article, which is by Mr. H. G. Bruce, is entitled The Confessions of Donald Grant. Mr. Bruce has given us a very strong and subtle study of some of the phenomena of the passion which men usually call love...
...nobler fields. He took up the cause of Rome in Friesland, but soon felt that he must go to Rome and there obtain the papal sanction for his work. In the Eternal City, he found his desire for spiritual work increased until his whole soul became fired with holy passion. From Rome under papal protection he went to his work in Germany. There, with indefatigable industry and love, he pushed his-noble work which took eight centuries and a Luther to undo. He became arch-bishop and papal legate. From his home in Britain came zealous men and women...