Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order in civil society. I have seen with a considerable degree of satisfaction your vigorous action against the gamblers and their camp followers, the prostitutes and bootleggers, up Saratoga way since some of us began prodding into your 'record'; though I regret that some of this holy zeal and energy has not been expended in our own beautiful city and before you became a candidate for President of the United States...
...rise with it. Let Harvard undergraduates show that tolerance which is the essence of individualistic democracy. Let Harvard graduates fit themselves to lead aright a democratic people. And let Harvard democracy, true democracy, free from boasting, free from standardization, but filled with faith in man and zeal for the service of man, become a watchword through the nation...
...public and human interest? The result has been, (as most obviously seen in the English and Philosophy Departments) that the qualifications for advancement on the Faculty have been reduced to a tea-drinking respectability and academic propinquity which must needs exclude robust personalities and original minds with the zeal, ardor and conviction necessary to instill into young blood a respect and admiration for knowledge and a desire to pursue it for its own sake. Sydney Hubert Blackstone...
Until then, his detachment, his impatience with questions not concrete, his zeal for his own job, will continue to be interpreted by many as political cowardice or autocratic overbearing...
...second, the purpose of preparing for one's career in life is the guiding force. But in the college the student drifts about on uncharted waters. Seemingly there is nothing for the college to do but guide the motiveless creature through the morasses or else fire him with a zeal which will send him off on the trail of self-education. Men like Henry Adams scoffed at the idea of self-education in the nineteenth century. No wonder that so many students in this complex age turn back in distress at the magnitude of the task set before them...