Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Burbank, Tuttle and Fiske were active in organizing here during the last campaign a branch of the Civil Service Reform Association. They succeeded in giving the old-timers something of a scare, and doubtless contributed to the overwhelming Republican defeat in this country. President White is very much in earnest on the subject of civil service reform...
...private courts seems to be unabated. The ball nine will go into regular daily training in the gymnasium next term, and it is expected that Keefe will drill them for a couple of weeks in the spring. A new campus will be fitted up in the spring and an earnest and enthusiastic movement made to "boom" our nine...
...Argo, ever sent any communication whatsoever to the managing or other editor of the Amherst Student. The letter printed by the latter, as coming from Williams, was simply a huge joke in the Student's usual ponderous style, and was evidently taken by the over-zealous News as sober earnest...
...largest and most enthusiastic meetings in the history of the union was held last night in Sever 11. Nearly two hundred and fifty members of the university attended, and evinced an earnest and appreciative interest in the entire debate. The question, "Resolved, That the best interests of Massachusetts would be served by the election of Gen. Butler," called forth unusually excellent speeches both from leading disputants and from the floor. Mr. Sewall. L. S., opened with a spirited denunciation of the Republican party, asserting the necessity that it should be defeated. both this fall and in 1884. He claimed that...
...benefit that could be derived from the association, there can be no doubt, provided it be organized on the proper basis, and be animated with a sufficiently earnest and definite purpose. Of late years there has been observed a marked tendency toward a better understanding and mutual co-operation in our colleges, both between instructors and students. The New England College Association has greatly promoted this spirit. In other ways our Inter-Collegiate Ball and Boating Associations have had the same tendency. But probably none of these would have a better effect in this way than an inter-collegiate press...