Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunday ought to carry its benediction; but it strikingly failed to carry it in its face. The cost of building having fallen, a prudent corporation is talking of putting up the memorial chapel. Some of the children are bawling in the college papers with that zeal which sounds so funny to their elders, long vaccinated against any excess of that quality. Cambridge and Boston are chock full of churches. What's the use of building a church where nobody wants to go? A building with some athletic object, an infirmary for the martyrs of sport, would be laudable...
Guileless priests bought generously. They also introduced the crooks to their parishioners. Where zeal did not rise to the buying point, the rogues made names make sales. They mentioned as investors or authorizers Cardinals Hayes, O'Connell and Mundelein; Archbishop Curley of Baltimore, Bishop Shahan of Washington; Alfred Emanuel Smith and John Jacob Raskob; Michael J. Meehan, stockbroker, and James A. Flaherty, supreme councillor of the Knights of Columbus. One of the rogues, Jerome D. Kline, played with his own name. To solicit German Catholics he was Jerome D. Kline. To Irish Catholics he became "J. D. Kane...
...separated from theology, to a group of active thinkers, both metaphysical and ethical, who violently disagreed in their theories of knowledge, yet were the best of friends, is described in an undramatic fashion. If this and other accounts are slightly deficient in humor, they are nevertheless written without zeal. Perhaps Professor Palmer wholly appreciates the fate of those undergraduates of 30 years ago who year in, year out would listen to an empiricist like James tear down the frail web of idealism wrought by Royce or Palmer himself, only to witness the process reversed when they returned to the idealists...
...biographer, Michel Vaucaire is more concerned with presenting an attractive outline of a life than with painting the portrait of a man who was endowed with something far greater than a mere wander-lust. He had an all compelling spirit for exploration, a zeal for lifting the veil of a subtle mystery of his time, the secret of Equatorial Africa. His later journeys in the form of the several trips to the far reaches of Scandinavia where he collected material for "The Land of the Midnight Sun" and the journey to "Russia in 1903 where he died should...
That Rollins College has been successful would be admitted by anyone who has been in touch with its record. The zeal for mental effort and advancement displayed by the students is well known in educational circles. And it is equally certain that the success is attributable neither to the basis of the system nor to the educational principle, but to the active leadership of the president. This is a fundamental distinction...