Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...startle the college world by their brilliancy, but all have a recognized ability to find fault. It is not this spirit of mere growling, however, that is at the root of the present dissatisfaction with our marking system. There are evils in that department that justify a more earnest and rational remonstrance than that of the college grumbler...
...students in question. It is one of Harvard's favorite boasts now-a-days that any man may come to Cambridge and find the best of instruction in any subject which he may choose to pursue as a specialty. It is another favorite boast that hard-working and earnest students do come to take advantage of the opportunities for special research thus offered...
...executive committee of the Harvard Union is to be congratulated upon "the choice of subject for debate this evening. The Chinese question is a question of vital interest to every American citizen. It is one of the foremost issues of the day, and demands the earnest consideration of every student of political economy. It is a subject of discussion to-day throughout the country, and finds a place in the platform of every political party. Every student should interest himself in the debate, and make it the means of studying one of the most trying questions...
...sides of a question may be upheld as in debate, but that both sides may be discussed, and it the arguments, fairly stated, tend to leave the question in doubt, the forensic will not for that reason be considered a failure. It is Dr. Royce's earnest advice that topics be chosen which bear directly upon the elective courses taken by the writer, and furthermore that the time which a man is to devote to his forensic work be not all crowded into the last week, but be distributed among several, as by this means far the best results...
...this good record of former years has been broken. We feel that we but voice the sentiment of the majority of Harvard men when we say that the performance of last night was small, contemptible, boyish and un-Harvard like in the extreme, and deserves the censure of the earnest men of all classes...