Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recalled. Yet where are we to get instructiors of the type recommended by Professor Tyndall? This is indeed a gordian knot in the shape of a question, and we must confess has not been cut with an answer. Much can be done by a hard working and earnest teacher to keep up the flagging interest of his class, but from the general indifference it is quite evident that there is a lack of system in the art of teaching, and until that is remedied we must be content with what advantages we have. Still in this age of progression such...
...inter-collegiate meeting association like this should be thoroughly organized, it should have a president, a corresponding secretary and such other officers and such committees as may be necessary to conduct its affairs. The earnest co-operation of a number of colleges is necessary to insure its success. Let each college have a meeting of those students who are interested in public speaking and determine upon some action with reference to the early organization of such an association...
...true that the original colonists were narrow, bigoted, and possessed of many unlovely traits of character, but these traits are always possessed by those who are working in earnest and striving for enlightenment in education and morals. The chief intent of Harvard College was to provide ministers for the Colonists, but it was soon found that college-bred men were eminently fitted for high offices in both the government of the state and in commercial spheres of life. Among the latter may be ranked the governors, Joseph Dudley, Stoughton and Saltonsdall. John Harvard numbered among his friends John Cotton...
...skill of the sophomores in rowing was tried rather unexpectedly last week. When about one mile and a half from shore the boat sprung a leak and they pulled for the shore in good earnest.-[Yale News...
...every member of '88 who intends to try for the nine be present at the meeting in the captain's room tonight, and by his presence encourage the captain, and show that '88 is in earnest in base ball matters this year...