Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...indifference of the Harvard football management in regard to the purchase by speculators of seats for the Yale game does not compare favorably with the zeal shown by the Yale management in keeping the Yale sections for the exclusive use of Yale men. The Yale News says: "It is a matter of honor that no tickets allotted to a Yale undergraduate be found in the hands of speculators." The Yale football management, in announcing the conditions of seat allotment for the Princeton game, says. "Each applicant is responsible for the tickets allotted him, and the management will print the names...
...Harvard he ranked high in scholarship, and was interested in literary work. Outside of his studies he was most interested in religious matters. A member of the Harvard Christian Association, he wished to qualify himself for this work as a life pursuit. His sincerity as a student, his zeal for the truth, and his deep earnestness in the religious life will remain as a heritage with his classmates...
...their early twenties could speak, I think they would say: "Be not too slow to put on the responsibilities of manhood." I know that youth is a time of happiness, but I think you will find that the happiness of manhood is the real happiness of life. Put zeal and vigor into your work, as did those young soldiers who won fame for Harvard University and bequeathed their names...
...first must be sought the Kindom of God, the vision given to Christ of an ideal society. The fundamental evil of society today is the alienation of two parts. Men overlook the supreme good in their zeal for material success. The note of greatness is absent from our progress, and the organizing power of moral impulse is gone. That we are better than people of a century ago we owe to our fathers, who have left us a goodly heritage of sturdy virtues, and this it is our duty to transmit to our descendants with increased worth...
...present situation is extremely difficult and complicated. The sudden turn of affairs in Crete has weakened the triple alliance of Germany, Austria and Italy, and the double alliance of France and Germany. Austria is frankly hostile to Crete, and the German emperor shows considerable zeal for the Sultan. Italy would naturally follow the lead but for the great popular sympathy for Greece. Public opinion in England is also for Greece, but thus far the English government has shown itself contemptuous of it. The policy of France is friendly. Russia is the most important power of all, and her policy...