Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...matter of congratulation that the question of the date of our race with Yale is at last as good as settled. The arrangement proposed is eminently fair; and the action of Yale in yielding to the earnest wishes of Harvard is graceful and courteous. It is to be hoped that the proposal will meet with no further obstacles to its final adoption...
...most other college nines, Harvard will have a new pitcher and catcher this year, and very great interest is, therefore, attached to the preliminary games this week, in that they will serve as important indicators of our chances for success this season. We have good material, and, from the earnest work done, we hope for the best. Captain Olmsted has shown the greatest patience and industry in training his men, and we shall be well satisfied if he has succeeded in inspiring them with his own enthusiasm and success in base-ball...
...predict for the school a most brilliant future, perhaps far more prosperous than is even hoped for by the gentlemen who have the matter in hand. In the very nature of its surroundings and purposes, the school offers a most attractive study-home for earnest scholars, while the learning of the men who will conduct it will in itself tend to invite the constantly increasing number of earnest lovers of the classics...
...Well, now, in good earnest, what do you mean to do with yourself when you come...
...some of our Western schools are even now passing the Eastern colleges in these unsatisfactory elements, and Ann Arbor, Northwestern and Oberlin may well congratulate themselves if, when they are as old as Harvard and Williams and Amherst, they turn out as fine gentlemen, as keen scholars and as earnest Christians. On this side the Alleghanies there are fewer appliances for study, little money and less experience. On the other side there is an abundance of means, and more temptations, greater dangers. But the difference is growing less each year. The West is advancing rapidly, and the 'freshwater' schools...