Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Glee Club and Pierian Sodality will give a concert on Thursday next in Union Hall, Boston. for the benefit of the University Boat Club. Most commendable zeal has been shown by the boat club in endeavoring to rid itself of the heavy debt which has encumbered it for several years past, and it is the duty of every student to second and support the financial managers by subscriptions and by attendance at performances and concerts given in its benefit. The concert promises to be of unusual interest. The programme will consist of selections from both the fall and spring concert...
...exchange which reaches our sanctum is so permeted with musty old fogyism and so little alive to the progressive tendencies of the age as the Yale Record. Yale has ever been noted for the zeal with which it clings to time honored institutions, even after they have passed their usefulness, and for the bitterness with which it resists any innovations; it is not, therefore, surprising that the college press should be tinged with the same spirit of subserviency to ancient things...
...order to make it a success, however, it should not be left to private zeal. The work should be made a regular department of the library under the charge of an efficient head. Many students could be found, who would be only too glad to assist. Special papers could be assigned to each one interested, and the entire work thus systematized...
...ought also to be said, in justice to Mr. Waterman, the superintendent, that the directors, and all students who know the facts, are convinced of his zeal for the welfare of the society, and of his irreproachable integrity...
...experience, I have seen countless young men, that could not be either driven or led into giving faithful study to Latin or Greek, Turn with eager desire and with persevering zeal to the study of English. I have seen the study of English spread like a contagion through all the grades of undergraduate life, till even the idlest and the feeblest were moved to labor for an object that even the dullest could appreciate as desirable...