Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Moxom said he was greatly interested in seeing how much good could be done incidentally by students really zealous in the work. He thought that a great deal of vice in this world is due to want of recreation. People are only now beginning to appreciate the moral value of entertainment...
...Bates was graduated in June, 1886, at the Rugby Academy in Wilmington where he took first honors. He entered the Phillips Exeter Academy the next fall, being graduated there in 1888. At Exeter he was in his senior year vice-president of his class, and took an active and zealous interest in the athletic and social life of the academy. He entered Harvard the next fall with high entrance honors, and maintained an excellent standard throughout his course, receiving a dissertation upon graduation. While at Cambridge, Bates identified himself with many undergraduates, social and working organizations, and took a prominent...
During the three years and a half that Professor Whiting was at the University of California he formed a wide circle of aquaintances. He was a man of kind-hearted, generous disposition and a very zealous student in his profession...
...remember my terrestrial globe rightly, one gets into his temperate zone after passing the parallel of forty, and arrives at that shall I call it Sheltered Haven of Middle Age, when, in proportion as one is more careful of the conclusions he arrives at, he is less zealous in his desire that all mankind should agree with him. Moreover, the longer one studies, the more thoroughly does one persuade himself that till he knows everything, he knows nothing,-that after twenty years of criticism one is still a mere weigher and gauger:-skilled only to judge what he may chance...
...zealous co-operation of students in all parts of the world. Further information will be given in future announcements. In the meantime we most urgently appeal...