Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...find the present College Administration open-minded and eager to consider his complaint, and energetic to remedy the evil. If my own experience is significant, and it can hardly be other, our present administrative officers are perhaps without exception beyond reproach in point of open-mindedness, integrity, intelligence and zeal. And then in the second place, we ought to feel and carefully to foster that elemental sentiment of gratitude and affection towards the Institution whose benefits we are here accepting. It is a sentiment which could, it is true, swell into a blind and fanatical loyalty; but also...
...know well that our country's ruthless enemies, whom they serve as far as they dare, desire nothing so much as to see this country afraid to acknowledge and make good its shortcomings; and those pro-Germans cloak their traitor-our aid to Germany under the camouflage of pretended zeal to save American officials from just criticism. "But there is an even lower depth," Mr. Roosevelt affirmed, "and this is reached by the men who treat the discovery of our shortcomings as a reason for relaxing our efforts...
...collected. Team 6 has second place with $6,650. This amount is more than the Committee had expected or hoped for, and the result of last week's drive shows the campaign to have been a success. The outcome was in large measure due to the zeal of the members of the teams in canvassing the college buildings. The most noticeable observation to be made is the response which men of moderate means gave to the loan and the large number of $50 subscriptions. There were, however, several $1,000 bonds taken and many ranging between that amount...
...military leader will find in the men under his command a spirit of service and a zeal for learning that will do full honor to his instruction. Those men who last year trained in the first R.O.T.C. will be followed into actual service by men not less eager for duty, and not less skilled in the fine science...
Although the instruction given by the French Mission, their interest and zeal in the work and their skill in conducting the exercises were responsible for the great success of the R. O. T. C., no less credit is due to Captain James A. Shannon, who was in charge of the regiment for the greater part of the three months. Less known to the University at large, but hardly less deserving, was the part played by Major Theodore Lyman '93 in handling the finances of the Corps. Had it not been for his work at several critical periods in the earlier...