Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...zealous social service workers of Phillips Brooks House are missing an opportunity. Instead of going to distant Roxbury or South Boston they might save themselves carfare and do Cambridge a good turn by opening a campaign to Clean Up Harvard Square. The muckers that haunt its precincts are a favorite subject for humorists:-- their pleas for "scrambles"; their shrill persistency in disposing of "Globe, Trawler, Transcri't, and A-Merrycan"; their conversational invasions of unprotected dormitories, are all notorious. But the social service workers seem to have overlooked them. If we stop to think of them seriously, the dangers...
...least astonishing feature of the game is the extraordinary devotion to duty exhibited by the enforcement officers. The history of the last eighteen months indicates that they are by far the most zealous of all our public servants. But why? Surely the mere satisfaction of exposing the sins of their weaker brothers is not enough to account for it. Some other impelling force has more than once led the prohibition officers to pose as internal revenue collectors and thus obtain evidence of violations. In their eagerness to uphold the dignity of the eighteenth amendment, they cheerfully break every other...
...magic of those two words--Christmas vacation--the University suddenly becomes a place of desolation. The Yard is a deserted village of silent houses, without even the rude clanging of the ever-zealous bell in old Harvard to break in upon its unnatural quiet. Even the gay rendezvous round the Square are forgotten for other parts. It is with light hearts that we turn from the nine o'clocks of this world to that other world of holiday cheer that comes only with Christmas. To its many friends, especially to those who are unable to return to distant homes...
...sixty per cent, law is in action. Voting will resume on Thursday and continue until the requisite number of ballots have been deposited. It now behooves those who last year were zealous in the support of the ruling to prove its worth...