Word: ardor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Maybe we are listless and our ardor is too tame...
...required. They must inevitably realize that two weeks in camp as the nearest approach to actual service, would prove of more practical value than months of maneuvering here in Cambridge. Moreover, the little inconveniences of even the luxurious Boxford Camp might serve to take the edge off the ardor of featherbed soldiers, and thus prevent inefficient enlistment...
...freshman debating clubs, all are encouraging signs of this increasing interest. But however beneficial these exclusively student organizations may be, it will be of great advantage to have a number of classes in which men can be specially trained in those elements of good public speaking which in the ardor of their club debates they are most inclined to neglect...
...athletic craze today, a craze which quite outruns sober thought on the scholarly side of college life. Athletes themselves are too willing to let their college work go in order that they may secure places on 'varsity teams. They themselves cannot make rules which shall check their ardor and the athletic contests are so fascinating that the students have no mind to move against them; it is well, then, that older heads have interfered, with a set of rules which will bring athletics down to their proper level. The sooner the students learn that athletics are not the chief...
...condemn luxury and comfort in a sweeping way he thought senseless and characteristic only of a very shallow thinker. Certainly all the luxury with which Harvard's sons had been lavished, did not abate one whit the patriotic ardor they showed in the late war. When a test came, Harvard men were revealed, not shorn of their manliness, but armed with full strength and vigor...