Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this announcement is made so early, nearly two months before the first day's tournament, and three weeks before the Mid-year examinations, there can be no excuse for not entering the contests in earnest. Every one will expect to see a first-class meeting, and it is to be hoped that there will be no disappointment of expectation. If men will train sufficiently, there is no reason why this tournament should not be even more interesting than those of preceding years...
...startling idea of the company Yale men expect to meet at dinner-parties. The Editors of the Courant are disturbed in their minds because what they "considered a harmless joke - to the effect that there were twenty insane persons in the Senior Class - has been copied, in sober earnest, into nearly every college paper, large or small, in the country." The characteristic American amusement of telling untruths which are not meant to be believed is sometimes dangerous, when the stories told are not big enough to be improbable...
...editors of the Williams Athenaeum read the Freshmen a very interesting lecture; they are exhorted to do "earnest, steady, and persistent work," not only in their studies, but in ball-playing, athletics, and literature (given, we suppose, in what the editors consider their order of importance), "not to be a nontenity in college life." nor to " shut themselves up between the covers of their lexicons" (which, by the way, we should hardly have considered as one of the natural instincts of a Freshman), but generally to assert themselves, and make themselves "felt and respected in all places." What a sweet...
Many men come here familiar with either the French or German languages, but not knowing the literary masterpieces. To the earnest student the rudiments of Spanish and Italian, with his knowledge of Latin, present few serious difficulties. If he take some Spanish or Italian rudimentary course as an extra "cram-up" on Diez, he will find Dante and Cervantes easy...
...success of which we are all so proud. To Mr. Watson, the coach, we owe a debt of profound gratitude which we most gratefully acknowledge; but the one man to whom Harvard owes most for the success of her oars is the captain, Mr. Bancroft. His earnest labors, his close attention to the needs of each man, his deep study of methods of rowing, won for him the entire confidence of the crew, and it was his confidence, together with his nerve and coolness, which enabled him to take the race into his own hands at the start and keep...