Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...average of almost twenty-three cuts on the day of the Dartmouth game. In one course, and not the largest course in College by any means, no less than eighty men cut before the Dartmouth game. This is no record to boast of from the standpoint of undergraduate zeal in things intellectual and it is to be hoped that a better record will be made this year. The Council is right in its statements and should be supported...
...true university basis." And the strength of our university basis is increased by the organization of this new school, which is among the first recognitions on the part of the leading educators of the fact that business is a career that demands a practical preparation, and that in the zeal for skilled professions its importance should not for a moment be lost sight...
Cokes, a country squire, comes up to London to the fair, to get his marriage license, attended by Waspe, his testy guardian, who calls for the license at John Littlewit's. Mrs. Littlewit conceives a violent craving for roast pig, and Dame Purecraft, her mother, and Rabbi Zeal-of-the-Land Busy, both hypocritical Puritans, agree to escort her to the fair, where it may be obtained, although they protest loudly against the vanity of such shows. The Rabbi salves his conscience for going by promising to eat to the fall of the wicked and to "eat exceedingly." Overdo...
...laid at Bartholemew Fair, where the characters have gone for recreation. Cokes is buying toys and ballads, when Edgworth slips up and picks his pocket. Justice Overdo, who is present in disguise, is accused and placed in the stocks. Then the Puritan Busy enters, and, filled with fanatical zeal, tries to destroy the gaily-colored booths. He is also put in the stocks, where he is jointed presently by Waspe out-wits the drunken guards, and during the confusion, Overdo and Busy escape...
...hope that Professor Clemen's last days in our midst will be made particularly pleasant to him through evidences of appreciation of what he has done for us. Like Professor Kuhnemann, he has given his services with single-minded and ardent devotion to his students and with passionate zeal for the cause which he represents. Let us not be reluctant to make make him feel that his splendid work has borne fruit and that he has done a great service not only to his own country, but to Harvard University as well. KUNO FRANCKE...