Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mess into which politics had fallen. No one is now too good to lay hold and help. Education is the only way to make our voters intelligent, and the more college-bred men, who are an educated class in themselves, we send out-men who have an earnest purpose as we believe most men do have,-the better will it be for the country. There has always been a silly hue and cry against college men in any occupation, which certain would-be wits have made on account of those boyish ideas that all young men have...
...from a Princeton rusher and was soon at the foot of our posts. In a maul-in-goal which followed, Kimball of Princeton secured the ball and scored a touch down from which Moffat kicked an easy goal. The ball was brought out and Harvard went to work in earnest so that in a very short time the ball was forced to Princeton's ground. The ball was passed back to Cowling and he kicked a very pretty goal from the field. From the next kick-off the ball again approached Princeton's line, and from a fumble by Baker...
...greatly to their discredit if they allow any such possibility. The game at Andover has taught them two things: that they must not on any account get "rattled" and that they must not have too much self-confidence. These two lessons, taken well to heart and backed by earnest faithful practice, will do much toward winning their game with Yale, and we trust they will act upon the suggestion. There is yet time before them to get into excellent trim; they have abundant good material, and are well backed by the class, so all they have...
...degree of LL. D. upon the governor was stopped. Now in the face of the election of Mr. Robinson the question again arises. Every one agreed that the custom of conferring the degree was a bad one and every one was glad to see it broken. It is our earnest conviction that the custom should remain a thing of the past and should never again be regenerated. If Mr. Robinson should show by any of his acts that he has any particular claim upon the degree aside from the fact that he is governor of the state of Masschusetts...
...early in the second autumn of his exile. While the descendants of large numbers of the earliest New England colonists, whose genealogies have an interest only for their own families, have easily traced their localities and lineage in the mother country, all efforts, and they have been many and earnest, spent upon the subject of my remarks, have wholly failed of rewarding results. Your predecessor in the chair Mr. President, the keen, sagacious and unwearied Mr. Savage, our chief in the labors of research, failed to accomplish in the case of Harvard what he did for so many other...