Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...importance of this subject has not been exaggerated, at least the methods employed for encouraging it have been more or less mistaken. It is too often the case that at the beginning of a session young men are animated for a week or two by a very lively zeal to participate in athletic sports which in a brief period wears itself out; after which the gymnasium is for the most part deserted. What is more likely to happen is the selection of a limited number of athletes, who are supposed to possess more than usual skill, and who are charged...
...straighten them out again. Games which should have been played or forfeited were postponed with impunity either by the consent of both of the captains or on account of petty wrangles about the umpire. The captains of class teams who were appointed to umpire did not show any zeal or interest whatever in the matter, and, when they could, sent substitutes to fill their places. The enthusiasm of the different teams cooled down considerably as the time wore away, and altogether the general verdict seemed to be one of indolent "laissez-faire." If the championship is to be decided...
...outrageous, make-believe justice, will encourage thieving far more than it will discourage it. The security of property demands that men who steal shall be punished as criminals, and it is a demand that must be respected. The Cambridge police and justices have always shown a remarkable degree of zeal in punishing with severity small offences. Now when men who have committed actual crime are brought for trial, they are dismissed with a fine of fifteen dollars. The circumstance, to view it in the most favorable light, has an unpleasantly suspicious color...
...procured. Several of my classmates were living as gentlemen on scholarships which they did not need. Some were drawing two of these benefices at a time. The future, however, proved to me that I was much more fortunate than my fellows, who had become permanently disabled in their zeal for prizes and scholarships. Bodily exhaustion had prevented me from working permanent injury to the brain. I was enabled to return and be graduated, though for several years the effects of the strain were a constant reminder of what might have been...
...teacher of History and Roman Law in the college his great success is recognized by all. He was always thoroughly devoted to his work and had a rare power of inspiring his students with zeal in their work. His success was crowned in January last by his promotion to a full professorship, a distinction rarely won at Harvard so early in life...