Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that too when there is hardly a college in this country where such co-operation would have so little prejudice and disaffection to encounter as here at Harvard. The danger here is almost wholly that of indifference and sluggishness on the part of the busier, brighter, and more earnest, serious students, and for this reason an experiment would not be half so hazardous as the Committee seem to think. Let them have half the student representation elected by the more important student organizations and the other half appointed by the Committee after consulting a few undergraduates; let the topics chosen...
...Homer he could not read. The first Greek student of Western Europe was Boccaccio, and he was never more than a student. But at the close of the fourteenth century a really competent teacher of Greek, Manuel Chrysoloras, found his way to Italy, and then the work began in earnest. The first half of the fifteenth century was the age of collecting manuscripts, so that it has been called after him who was the leader of the movement-the age of Poggio. The fall of Constantinople, which brought a fresh supply of exited Greeks to Italy, some laden with manuscripts...
...ball has been fairly inaugurated with an association to back it. The game seems to meet with the warm support is deserves, and has clearly come to stay. The only variety of foot ball worthy the name, it is a wonder that it has not been taken up in earnest before. There is a time between the freezing up of the regulation fall sports and the coming on of winter, which is splendidly adapted to foot ball. -[Orient...
...have met signal and crushing defeat. It was with the utmost difficulty that the cup was brought back, and the present aspects do not favor the assumption that even this will be repeated this year without great efforts. The personnel of the freshman eleven is such that good earnest work will have every chance of gaining its just recompense-a victory over Yale. Of course, nothing could be more natural than for all concerned to utterly neglect any outside pressure that may be brought to bear, and consider all that may be said upon the subject as wholly unnecessary. However...
...meet the given description of the emblem of any corporation, is no otherwise than null and void. Already we have heard sundry freshmen announce their intention of disregarding in future all summonses which fail to meet the legal requirements. We print these few words of warning, therefore, in the earnest hope that the proper authorities will promptly correct the existing errors, and thus avert the impending difficulties...