Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...question of civil service reform in our national politics is certainly one of the leading topics of the day. At Harvard, as well as at other colleges, there are undoubtedly many whose interest in the subject is sincere and earnest, and who are very willing to aid the cause in any way in their power. At one college, we understand, there is already a civil service reform among the students, and at Princeton the project of forming one is now being agitated. There would seem to be no reason why this movement should not spread throughout all the colleges...
...this connection we wish to speak again of the advisability of offering second year honors in other departments as well as in mathematics and classics. That men will devote themselves to independent and earnest study has been plainly shown by the number of candidates who present themselves each year for honors in these subjects. There is no apparent reason why men of a pronounced taste for studies other than the classics and mathematics should not be willing to do outside work in the subject of their choice if sufficient inducement were offered to them. We think that the increased amount...
...poem, "A Vision," shows an earnest sympathy and intensity of feeling, but has unfortunately many marks of artificialness that jar upon the reader but still do not affect him very strongly, inasmuch as he feels that the artificialness exists only in the phrase and not in the poetic current...
...members of the Columbia crew are in active training. They pulled over the course yesterday, and their style of action was much admired by aquatic critics. The Columbias this year are a fine-looking set of young men, modest, unassuming, but hard, earnest workers...
This last is hardly the way to make the day truly a senior's day, and thus it acts directly contrary to the committee's earnest endeavors to have the pleasures of the day confined to friends of the seniors, in college and out. The committee sincerely trust such an incident will not occur. They would say in this connection, that the owners of the store in question, on having the matter put to them in this light, voluntarily agreed to take no more tickets on sale, and the committee would regard it a favor if other storekeepers in Cambridge...