Word: passionately
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...Southard's peculiar distinction lay in an extraordinay fecundity of mind combined with a genuine passion for social betterment. He was an intimate friend and pupil of the late Professor Royce, and for many years co-operated in the latter's Seminary of Logic. At the time of his death he was conducting a course in psychopathology in the Department of Philosophy and Psychology. With this more theoretical interest was united a close attention to the organic aspects of mental disease, and the relation of autopsy findings to the mental symptoms shown by the patient during his confinement...
...Lampy seems to have over-acted a new role. The strangeness of his new acting has unbalanced him; for in the torrent, tempest, and, as we may whirlwind of his passion, he has forgot the temperance which may give it smoothness (Oh, it offends us to the soul to hear the robustious, periwig-pated Lampy tear a passion to latters, to very rags...
After telling something of his passion for games and sports, especially for tennis and salmon and trout fishing, he spoke of books, which he characterized as "the greatest of all recreations, for without the power of reading no man can be independent...
...course it is true that great actions are not accomplished by a middle course. But the function of a periodical is not acts, but an intelligent discussion of acts. It must interpret the news, and to do so adequately it should not be swayed by passion. The present attitude of the "New Republic" is like that of the little boy who refuses to play because he has not received his full share of the pie, and is correspondingly useless. An attitude like that of "Harvey's Weekly", on the other hand, which indiscriminately damns all acts of President Wilson just...
...German professor, with that passion for exactitude which characterizes the species, finds that 278 persons have been divested of royalty in some fashion or other since the armistice was signed...