Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...them to pursue in college, but the purposes of most students are indefinite or unformed, and those of others are liable to change. In spite of all restrictions, suggestions, and advice, one is impressed with the great liability of students to misdirect their efforts, or from a lack of earnest purpose to drift through college without any special aim taking things that are easy to them, or that they fancy to be adapted to their tastes or their uses. Nothing could be worse or further from real education than a dilettante picking at this and that, or gathering fragments...
...Harvard, the first university in the land, with a library shrouded in Egyptian darkness in the hours when men's brains are liable to be most active, is the disgusted cry we have heard about us for months. Every earnest student feels the painful and unwarranted deeds that is put to his reading hours by the shrill cry, "library closed" at sunset every...
Whatever the details of the plan may be, every earnest worker in college will be glad to learn that there is to be electric light in the library...
...woman, struggling either to incite the citizens of the United States to dissatisfaction, or one interested for the good of the Country, but blinded to certain facts in it. In the preface he says that the "object of this pamphlet is to turn the thought of the earnest working men of our country to the social problem of the times." He then proceeds to turn them to it very forcibly and to show that the moneyed men of America and the Corporation are getting control of the Government, and will bye and bye rule the United States; that...
...dean of this college to be meritorious students and entitled to encouragement and support; it being however, my wish that said money should not be awarded to any student solely by reference to his rank or standing as a scholar, but that regard should also be had to earnest and honest endeavor to attain excellence. The scholarship hereby established shall be called the 'Price Greenleaf Scholarship...