Word: zealously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...during the past few years the Exeter delegation has decreased in number to a great extent and simply because the Exeter men in other colleges have offered to their hesitating brethren what seemed to be greater advantages than are to be found among us. We understand fully how zealous every Harvard man is to help his college but we also know that a little well directed energy will accomplish more than any amount of well-intentioned talk which does not completely persuade...
...convenience of the students and others who are interested. On Saturday evening an officious police officer ordered these scores taken down, on the ground that they collected a crowd outside. As a rule, Cambridge policemen are a pretty moderate set of men, but this particular one is rather too zealous. His business was to keep the sidewalk clear and keep people moving; if he was too lazy to undertake this he might have sent to headquarters for a more efficient officer. A police officer who thinks he rules the world simply because he wears brass buttons and carries a club...
...Yorks will be played. With such advantages as Yale enjoys it will be seen that our own nine is heavily handicapped in the struggle for the championship. In addition, Yale has practically the same nine this year with which she won the pennant last season. Only by the most zealous work on the part of our nine can we hope to make a respectable showing against Yale this year...
...otherwise, upon the subject of giving out the marks for the mid-year examinations. There are several instructors who refuse to let their class even know the marks until the average for the year comes out in midsummer. This seems to us rather unfair. A man cannot work as zealously and conscientiously if he is utterly in the dark as to his standing or his chances of getting through a course for the year. If a man gets a low mark on the mid-years and knows it he can apply himself more diligently to that particular course, with...
...fact that the study of Political Economy at Harvard and Yale inculcates free trade principles has led a zealous New York State paper to advise parents not to send their sons to these universities...