Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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During the coming season, then, an earnest and decided move should be made toward the permanent and effective establishment of class nines. Our ball players ought not to shrink from the task because it requires a certain amount of time and trouble. If the rowing men in the classes are willing to undergo two months of monotonous gymnasium training, work on the river in all sorts of weather, and make other equally great sacrifices for the sake of their class and the prospects of the university crew, surely it is not asking too much of our base-ball players...
...reason why they cannot make a place on a class nine as honorable and desirable as a place on a crew. As some decisive step must be taken, and as this seems to be the only thing to be done, we hope to see, during the coming season, an earnest and united effort on the part of the leading men of the class nines to bring Harvard back to the commanding position which she held of old, and which so clearly belongs...
...spirit and aims of our Vassar contemporary are high and altogether worthy. If the rest of the college world will but join in the scheme with as sincere and earnest a purpose as is exhibited by our sisters at Vassar, its outcome and uses would no longer remain uncertain...
...select the studies which will give him the most valuable training or best fit him for active life. Any one," it continues, "who has watched the tendency and effect of the elective system must heartily indorse Dr. Crosby's conclusions, in which, we are sure, he voices the earnest feeling of a large portion of the alumni of Harvard." We do not feel prepared to enter into a discussion of this much-vexed question. But of one thing we feel quite certain - that most of those who are competent to judge do still uphold the elective system. We cannot believe...
...pains to eradicate all professionalism from college athletics, I think they should go further and endeavor to keep out all "Yaleism." I do not wish to say anything against any of the Yale eleven personally; but, to draw it as mild as possible. I believe that their enthusiasm and earnest desire to win, laudable enough in itself, causes them to lose all control of themselves and leads them into excesses which, I feel sure, they afterwards regret. As I do not think the Yale men can ever be altered in this respect, I think the only remedy is to stop...