Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this discussion is interesting--especially for those being discussed. One has something of the feeling of Mr. Cobb's goldfish when all his moral traits and characteristics are dragged triumphantly to the light. Sometimes, too, there is a temptation to wonder if the critics, in their zeal, are not piling Pelion upon Ossa, and driving their proud victims to further limits in order to uphold the reputation laid at their thresholds. For above all we of the younger generation are anxious to please--and if we are expected to be shocking, shall we not do our best to give satisfaction...
Then fired with religious zeal to serve he goes "down among the multitude" in France. It is France behind the lines in wartime, people with men and women from the four corners of the earth, men and women tensed in a chaos that has engulfed the world. With a calm serenity lie goes to serve here as he has served at home, but his services are nothing. Doubt batters his firm beliefs until, contrasted with actuality they fade into shadows. There is but one path open to him if he is to serve these people he must mingle closely with...
...prosaic truth. Many have suggested that the loyal Painters' Union intended to pay a two handed compliment-to Yale by showing the very faint traces of Orange emerging from the Blue; to Harvard by an unmistakable registering of the score of November nineteenth. Unfortunately, the painters in their zeal have grossly misrepresented the Eli score; two precious points are missing-the numbers run only from...
...Club will sing, with Dr. A. T. Davison '06 conducting. The concert tonight is one of a series of musical events arranged by the Museum. The program for tonight is as follows: Adoramus Te, Palestrina Cantate Domino, Hassler O Sacrum Convivium, Viadana Grant us to do with Zeal, Bach Love Songs, Brahms Cavalier Song, Stanford Come Again, Sweet Love, Dowland Chorus of Bacchantes from "Philomon and Baucis", Gounod Hallelujah, Amen, Handel
...attempt to unmake the old history of the Jews is as whimsical as his earlier attempt to make a new history of the Amorites. There are indeed many practical difficulties in the way of the Jew's return to his ancestral soil, but the best British statesmanship and Jewish zeal are working conscientiously toward removing these difficulties in accordance with the highest principles of justice. Men of the present age should have their eyes on Palestine, where one of the greatest events in history is now being enacted, the revival of ancient race, the fulfilment of prophecies, the triumph...