Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Marylebone in secession to the ground in the White Conduit Fields, then probably being built over. Lord was a descendant of a Roman Catholic family of Yorkshire farmers who had suffered in the confiscations of 1745. About 1782 he was a wine merchant and a cricketer of great zeal and some ability. Lord, who appears to have had energy, closed with the offer, and established a ground in what is now Dorset square-not perhaps, we may opine, without some help from the Sackville interest with the owners of the Portman estate. On this ground, called Lord's, a match...
...choose a director from the freshman class within a few days. As yet, however, so few men have joined the club that it hardly seems necessary to select a director to look for the interest of himself, and possibly one other man. The freshmen have shown a commendable zeal in foot ball and track athletics, and should do the same for the other sports, especially bicycling. As any person connected with the college who rides a machine can be admitted as a member of the club, we see no reason to prevent a large number of '88 men from gaining...
...only lack of space that prevents me from writing more. The zeal and promptness of advertising shown yearly by different firms, their cunning contrivances to get attention, their rivalry among each other in seeking the student's trade, are proofs of the dependence they place upon us. A great many Boston firms have offered large reductions to the "co-op," that thereby they may secure Harvard customers. It is well for us to remember, then, that not only does Harvard exert a great influence on the thought and literature of the world, but she also gives life to Cambridge...
...game, the suppressed excitement was almost unbearable. I saw graduates of the 'fifties and 'sixties around me who were so nervous that they had to sit down and steady their hands in order to light a cigar. Gray-haired, venerable-looking men entered into the sport with all the zeal of their young friends just out of college. The enthusiasm of the latter found vent in cheers that prolonged the game from four till nearly seven o'clock, there being fully three-quarters of an hour when the answering cries of the boys-and some of them, too, would come...
President Porter of Yale says: "As far as Yale is concerned athletics are doing well. They do not divert the interest of the student, nor do they diminish the zeal for culture as a whole. The student is improved by the slight diversion of attention which they afford...