Word: vehement
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...into a German prig with a nasty-minded distrust of feminity". That's Parsifal! There's plenty of go in the Monthly still. Mr. Pichel in his helpful "note" on Strindberg,--which, by the way, was written before Strindberg's death--does not find it necessary to be so vehement. That "note" suggests the query, whether or not it looks well to have the items on the title-page all labelled "verse", "essay", "fiction" and so forth--although of course this helps the worried reviewer...
...gymnasium stands the necessity of more improved land for the promotion of our ever-growing intracollegiate athletics. The increasing interest that has been taken of late in that kind of sport is a most healthy manifestation, which deserves, in the estimation of the most ardent supporter or the most vehement opponent of intercollegiate athletics, every possible encouragement. And yet, of Soldiers, Field only 24 acres, or less than half of its total area, are available for use. The cricket team was driven out of existence by the pressure of other teams, and worst of all, as our need increased...
...February number of the Outing Magazine Mr. Caspar Whitney has come out with a vehement attack on college baseball players who take part in "summer baseball" for one consideration or another. Mr. Whitney is not wrong in his estimate of the corrupting influence of this "crooked amateur," but he directs his remarks against Harvard, Yale and Princeton "because of their prominence in the college world and not at all to single them out as graver offenders than others." He commends President Tucker's act in disqualifying certain guilty players at Dartmouth "to President Eliot of Harvard, President Hadley of Yale...
...Studenski replied for Yale. His position was an attempt to show that the discussion was proceeding illogically, and that the gold standard could not be satisfactorily used. He was convincing, although somewhat vehement...
...Harvard undergraduates. We recognize the distinguished position which Harvard men have always taken in speaking and debate. In the ante-bellum days when rhetorical speaking was in vogue, the polished Everett, the unflinching Summer, the persuasive Phillips were the country's leaders. Then came the change from the vehement "oratorical" style to the simple, direct and business-like speaking-a movement in which Harvard men have taken the lead: Colonel Higginson's "Hints on Speech-making" has been of inestimable service; the late Governor Greenhalge and ex-Governor Russell were among the most active exponents of the new style...