Word: rabidly
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...stand, too conservative, to be carried away by the expression of radical ideas. Should a fortunate student be accidentally bumped from his daily rut, panic would seize him, and the next day would find him travelling the well-beaten path of precedent again. Let us have a few rabid,--yes, flighty, unbalanced, red-flagged,--extremist lecturers. The University can stand them...
...better form of preparedness to teach every interested man the rudiments of military science, so that he in time of need can quickly in turn train green recruits? For --and I speak from experience--if a few of our violent jingoists as well as a few of our rabid pacifists could be induced to spend a summer at Plattsburg, they would on the one hand have impressed upon them the awful horror of real war, and on the other, the only true means by which this calamity can be avoided. E. S. ESTY...
...Freshmen in the dormitories by the river. This morning we are all shamed by the announcement of the rules which have been passed. For once, Being and Not-Being have become nearly one. The few simple regulations for future Freshmen will silence even those who have been most rabid in their antipathy to the parietal schemes which had occurred to them. We are glad to know that attendance at meals in the dormitories will not be compulsory, that men will not have to be in at ten or out all night, and that the Goodies will not be used...
...other side. He did this always politely, and not from wanton aggression, but the very polish of his expressions, his logic which could not be confuted, and the wealth of examples which his well-furnished mind could bring to the support of his positions, sometimes drove his opponents almost rabid in their replies to him. This courage also saved him from the littleness of "answering back," and enabled him to possess his own soul in peace...
...money is given him, but his bills are somehow footed. And sometimes it is a fleet-footed foreigner who has an easy business place found for him in order that he may carry club-colors to the front. Even the spectator will in a few years become the most rabid denunciator of these practices. To avert such a decline in athletics, the younger men in the ranks must be educated upon what are heresies, to so imbue them with the meaning of the term amateur that they will never consider playing for gain except as belonging to the professional class...