Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gradual but sure revolution which is being effected in the social life at our university, encouraged and stimulated by such earnest discussions as appear from time to time in the college publications, can no longer be ignored by any one. It is very gratifying to find that these matters are being seriously discussed in all circles within the university. We are confident that this healthy, manly spirit which is appearing so prominently will result in bettering many of the relations of college life. While it is well to set our aims very high, we must not allow ourselves...
...discourage looseness of living and to found a strong constitution, but, if taken rightly, they can hardly fail to develop in the athlete to a marked degree the qualities of courage, perseverance, loyalty, and a high sense of honor." This is a sentiment which must commend itself to all earnest, thinking men. It is undoubtedly the true way to look at athletics; and to reach this result, Mr. Wendell contends, the athlete must begin with a thorough respect for and appreciation of his sport; and he must especially avoid all tricks and underhand practices. That part of the article which...
...fine elevens in the field, and it would probably give a great impulse to one of the most beneficial and least objectionable of college pastimes if Yale should now accept the Harvard challenge, pick out a team of cricketers, and with the opening of spring begin field practice in earnest...
...Games can be played with them which are not matches, and the practice which they would get at New Haven and Cambridge would be desirable. It will be better for the smaller colleges. Take the experience of Weyleyan at foot-ball, for instance. That plucky college has made an earnest and enthusiastic effort to win at foot-ball. Its boys have labored just as conscientiously as those of Yale and Harvard, but they are beaten simply by the limitations of their numbers, and their field, and the absence of large support. They have accomplished all they hoped to in defeating...
...submit to the friends of athletics in Harvard and Yale an earnest and thoughtful consideration of the plan suggested, not claiming for it that it is wholly without objection, but believing that it must come soon, and ought to come now, when the time seems to be especially...