Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...individual players, have grown to be pretty heavy, and in spite of their constant victories, there is no promise of better times in the future. It is ungenerous, to say the least, in the college to applaud their success, and immediately flee from too great an exhibition of zeal, lest it should be drawn into subscription. However the case may be, the team must not feel discouraged; they have already shown so much pluck in the face of adverse circumstances, that we hope to applaud their future victories...
With equal zeal would fire...
...discussions in natural history; "compositions in the classical languages;" "essays of a moral and religious import;" "a part of every number shall be unalienably devoted with religious sacredness to original poetry;" and finally, "under a miscellaneous head anything which shall seem properly introduced into a literary journal." Taste and zeal truly robust! How the pallid young collegian of today shrinks aghast at such a programme of literary diversion. And then the editors, speaking through the young Edward Everett, say out bravely and patriotically (this was in July, 1810): "The foreign transactions of the last four years. nay, the last three...
...greater variety of events be presented at these inter-collegiate meetings, and that among other events, sparring have a prominent place. This suggestion for several reasons we can hardly deem practicable. What would be an especial objection, is the fact that the contestants in the different bouts, in their zeal to show and prove the superiority of the colleges they represent, will be liable to think more of hard hitting than scientific sparring, and what might be otherwise interesting contests will degenerate into so-called "slugging matches." This, of course, would create personal enmity and ill-feeling, and gradually...
...well for the president to have resigned at the time of the first resolution, it is now a foolish and unfortunate idea to revive a disturbance hurtful to the college and once settled, especially since the actions of the president have shown such good-will towards the college, and zeal in urging its interests...