Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when free and independent work is in order. Similarly, in the more advanced science courses, the student could be offered liberal opportunity for laboratory problems in the reading periods. The whole of this proposition depends upon the co-operation of professors, for professors may forget that they have equally zealous collegues who are liable to overestimate the limited energy of students. In all this we see the opportunity opened to the student, to grasp a course as a whole...
...Duce dealt with the widespread rumor that his police are a veritable tsar's cheka. He said: "It was necessary to weed out police, especially the plain clothes police. . . . When police are in plain clothes and have not the check of uniform they must be composed of picked men-zealous and silent citizens...
Eight college-educated young Chinawomen, serious, zealous, patriotic, paraded solemnly down the bund or riverside at Hankow, Nationalist capital, last week. The tallest walked first, carrying a placard atop a bamboo pole, and wearing only large shell-rimmed glasses. The seven others, were more scantily clad. The placard read...
John Huss (he spelled it Hus) of Bohemia was tied to a stake in 1415. Hysterical peasants and zealous priests pointed to a pile of fagots at his feet, again asked him to recant his life's teachings. He replied with his eyes on the clouds: "God is my witness that I have never taught or preached that which false witnesses have testified against me. He knows that the great object of all my preaching and writing was to convert men from sin. In the truth of that gospel. . . I now joyfully die." The flames licked out his life...
...offered for the instruction, or destruction, as the case may be, of the young. There were at least four questions on a recent examination that we took, or were taken by. And we might very well have completely ignored those questions, letting the professor think that we were either zealous reformers, all two of us, or that we were refreshingly ignorant of the Facts. And he would know all along that we weren't at all. In Fact, we probably taught him much of the contents of those questions, the little rascal...