Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...both in the outside world and in college you may be surprised that I should select such a trifling one for mention as the following may appear to be. But I assure you, to me it does not seem so unimportant. We have here in college a praise-worthy zeal in preserving quiet and order; but we also take a curious way to apply it. For instance, all disturbances in a private room are instantly checked, the moment the sound thereof reaches the precise proctor's ear, and woe betide the man who by some ill fate occupies a room...
...wrote a strong letter to the great evangelist, protesting against his aspersions on the college piety. It is not necessary to take sides in the old dear dispute. Certainly it is not necessary for us to praise in full what we doubt was a very lukewarm condition of religious zeal; but we may well rejoice in the occurrence as a breaking open of what had been a very hard and tight idea of religious experience. It was a protest in behalf of the variety and spontaneity of spiritual life. It was a claiming of its rights for the soul...
...arrest of the thief in the gymnasium on Monday afternoon was made through the energy and perseverance of the gymnasium employees, who took the culprit in the act. Great praise is awarded to them for the zeal and honest endeavor which they have shown in the matter...
...marred by an unfortunate want of harmony in the brass. A very pleasing episode occured after this piece, when Mr. Cary, president of the Sodality, stepped forward and in behalf of the members, presented Mr. Forchheimer with a gold-tipped baton as a token of their appreciation of the zeal and efficiency with which he has performed the duties of conductor...
...falsehood and cheating are and must ever be regarded in all the conduct and dealings of private life and of business among men - especially among "gentlemen" as we all claim, and ought, to be. All must agree with the correspondent, J. M. M. (in CRIMSON of 9th) that the zeal with which the discussion has been taken up indicates "an earnest desire on the part of many students to rid college life of all underhanded methods and thereby render impossible the slurs cast upon us by outsiders, and to place the college student in his true position, that...