Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...second tenors and the same number as basses. The successful candidates were, for second tenor, R. Jones, H. Wadleigh, J. P. Lee, and for basses, R. B. Hale, W. Atkinson, J. S. Codman, H. B. Learned, and G. W. W. Brewster. The club will settle down immediately to earnest work, and will hold a rehearsal each day this week at 1.30, preparatory to the concert at Brookline, March 4, and to singing at the twentieth anniversary dinner of the Harvard Dental School, to be held at the Vendome, March...
...college should all the more heartily give them its support. The crew has done its part, has gone to work with a zeal and determination never shown before, but there is a disposition among some inconsiderate men, who think it their part to stand aloof and sneer at the earnest but unsuccessful efforts in the past, to refuse the money which is absolutely necessary...
...Ninety board assumes control of the paper it will be their earnest aim to follow the example of the preceding board and maintain the present high standard of the CRIMSON, and by further improvements, as far as is in their power, to make it all that it should be as the college daily...
...nine has not as yet been able to get the cage for regular practice. The batteries alone are allowed its use; but in about three weeks the nine will begin practice in earnest. At present a light system of training is undergone, the work consisting in the use of the weights, dumb-bell exercises, vaulting, and a short run on the track...
...university suffered severely the past year by the deaths of Asa Gray, professor of botany and a man of worldwide reputation; of Earnest Young, recently appointed professor of history, and of Robert Dickson Smith and James Freeman Clarke, members of the board of overseers...