Word: fervor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more serious abuses are remedied, we would like to call the attention of the future council on improvements to the fact that the lecture room in Massacusetts is rendered uncomfortable by the absence of curtains. The sun pours in upon the burdened backs of the students with a fervor savoring rather of things below than above our heads. A slight expense would obviate the whole trouble and render comfortable a room which is at present a source of annoyance to many...
...breath to renew the contest. As for singing and whistling, we cannot all be good first tenors, and it is said that only one man in a thousand can whistle a tune correctly, so in the face of these discouraging facts, let us all resolve to suppress our musical fervor...
...latter in the physical. It is but natural to expect that the more intellectual arts and sciences will be absorbed in unobtrusive silence, and that their achievement will not attract any notable share of public attention, and that base-ball and boat racing will be studied with a fervor which cannot but trumpet the accomplishments of their classic followers to the notice and admiration of an expectant world. Local pride leans more kindly toward the victories of brawn than towards those of mind, and a college year is ever made more memorable by its athletic than by its intellectual victories...
...that only one has in reality done so. The Advertiser has given them a superficial commendation, as also has the New York Times. Neither paper, however, has touched upon the real point of discussion involved in the matter. The Spirit of the Times also with a somewhat superfluous fervor shouts out its approval. "Their stated facts," it cries, "are indisputable; their arguments calm, clear, and concise; their conclusions unavoidable. The conference which suggested the ideas, and the man who clothed them with words, have equal reason to be proud of their work. An overwhelming majority of all those persons whose...
...remarks, have wholly failed of rewarding results. Your predecessor in the chair Mr. President, the keen, sagacious and unwearied Mr. Savage, our chief in the labors of research, failed to accomplish in the case of Harvard what he did for so many other of our worthies, We recall the fervor of his utterance here when he spoke, as he has published in print, to effect that he would give a guinea for each word, or a hundred dollars for each of five lines of information about John Harvard in England. There is necessarily much that is unsatisfactory in a wholly...