Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Freshmen, on the other hand, are unusually light this year, and unlike many Freshman teams, are not blessed by any former school-boy stars. However, the team has one excellent asset. The men have shown throughout the season an eagerness to learn and a zeal for accomplishment which so far has brought them out on top in each of the preliminary games. Spirit and team-play will go a long way toward winning football games, but every member of the Freshman squad realizes that, with Chapin, Kunhardt, and De Jonge, who have played a big part in the early...
Bach, "Grant Us to do with Zeal...
Equally to be admired are the fine generosity of his thought and the hardihood with which he exposes his bank account to the zeal of competing "drive" teams. One casual sentence, moreover, discloses an underlying wisdom. "Almost without exception self-made men educate their own children." With only a single step further in the enlightenment of self-interest, we arrive at the conclusion that, as the ultimate beneficiary of advanced education is the community as a whole, the community as a whole should be reckoned the professor's ultimate debtor...
Another teacher to make the supreme sacrifice, Richard Norton, educator, is to have a memorial service on Saturday. The same zeal that carried him to Asia in the cause of science made him one of the first American volunteers in France, in the early part of 1914. The ability which he showed in organizing and leading expeditions of research made possible later, the success of his greater effort...
...that the sum does not include the collections of the Freshman canvassers, who are due to make their first report today. Nevertheless, it is certain that the University, and the members of the College especially, must answer the call of the country for funds with far greater enthusiasm and zeal in the future if they are to fulfill the quota assigned them,--a quota which is over $5,000 less than the sum collected in the drive for the Second Liberty Loan...