Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...warmest greetings as Harvard men, and yet we are desirous of warning you against the indiscretions so common to men entering college. At this early period of your college career we urge you to be discreet, when it will often prove far easier to be rash, and earnest when you will find it pleasanter to be superficial. Some day we assure you, the time will come when you will be glad of every second thought you devoted to the conduct of your freshman year...
...first turn our attention. While the captain of the eleven has done and is doing his best, he must have your assistance in order that he may succeed. Subscriptions are necessary, but subscriptions are not all. Your presence is needed on the field to encourage the men to earnest work, but your presence is not enough. What is most to be desired is your active participation in the game, whether your position on the eleven be secured or not. Liberal subscriptions, whole-souled enthusiasm, active personal efforts, all three, united to the energy of the captain, are bound to secure...
...much pleasure. Dr. Abbot is pastor of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, and is one of the ablest and most widely known clergymen in the country. He is already well known here as he has preached in Appleton Chapel several times during the past two years. On those occasions his earnest. eloquent words have been most helpful to all whose privilege it was to hear them. He will undoubtedly greatly strengthen the influence of the preachers over the life of the university...
...captain of the nine should adopt the policy of delaying the game, of resorting to trickery, unknown to our college teams before, and only on the level of professionalism, is utterly disgraceful and dishonorable, if not cowardly. If the game was begun, it should have been played in earnest. Fair defeat is no disgrace, far from it, but trickery and "muckerism" should never come into college athletics...
...clubs have shown by their earnest work that they have the best interests of the class at heart and, therefore, it is not only from the management of the crew that thanks should come to them, but also from the whole class...