Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Rain or shine the foot-ball team can be found steadily at work at their practice every afternoon. If earnest purpose and hearty willingness to work can bring us success this fall we predict a happy issue to this year's sport. The eleven work quietly and systematically in every manoeuvre, and their steady determined manner is gaining more and more approbation from their numerous friends who watch the daily practice. But their supporters must not forget how much the players appreciate whatever encouragement or interest may be shown in their work. Their inconveniences now are many and their failures...
...Thirty-second street. The object is "to turnish experienced and responsible teachers, at the lowest possible cost to the student." The instructor in Latin and Greek is Dr. E. G. Sihler, late Johns Hopkins Fellow in Greek, and his charge will be proportional to the size of his class. "Earnest students not preparing for the examinations, will be admitted to the classical and mathematical courses. - [N. Y. Post...
...congratulated on the satisfactory manner in which they have put the team on the field this fall. So far the work of the eleven has been carefully and energetically done, and the start has been well made. Now it remains to be seen whether the men are in earnest, and are determined to do successfully the work which remains for them to do before they meet Yale. This week being the first of their regular practice, ought to show a very decided improvement in their strength and method, and this improvement must come if they are to be successful...
...lives afford less material for a romance than do the adventures of wealthy men's sons and the prowess of boating men, but there is still a field for some novelist who wishes to describe college life in the doings of this other set. There is a set of earnest, sincere, although plodding men who have come here for business; who do not play poker and go to the theatre and other resorts every night, and spend their mornings in bed, complacently counting the strokes of the chapel bell. There is little romance or excitement in going to chapel every...
...Columbia we would say that it is a matter of the deepest regret to every one in college that the present misunderstanding should have arisen; the relations of the two colleges in the past have always been of the pleasantest, and it is our earnest hope that they may continue so for the future, Harvard feels persuaded that her conduct is justifiable. Blame is not attached to Columbia; blame cannot justly be attached to Harvard. A misunderstanding has existed from the beginning. That the matter may rest where it is without further criminations or recriminations on either side...