Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...strong bias towards free trade for America, and leave College without the knowledge of a single argument on the other side of a question, perhaps the most important of the present day. Cases are not wanting where men thus carefully trained, have, from a little undirected research, become earnest converts to the doctrines of protection, not, of course, as a lasting principle, but as a matter of present expediency. Let us pay, if possible, a little more attention to this important subject, and whenever the question is alluded to in lectures or recitations, let us have a fair-statement...
...elective system, though far superior to the prescribed, has also its drawbacks. Perhaps the most frequent and greatest difficulty, even to the earnest student, is in deciding what to elect, and in learning who is to conduct the course; whether the professor named in the elective pamphlet, or some unknown alternate. At the end of his Freshman year, especially, is the student placed in a critical and doubtful position. Mistakes in electives are inevitably made, and the Junior regrets that he frittered away his Sophomore year on La Fontaine, when he might have taken a solid course in English, science...
Although, O my beloved friend, the departing fireball reminds me that I must part from you on paper, my heart still fondly throbs for thee, and that blessings may fall upon thee is the earnest prayer...
...have not intended to find fault with the Faculty as the cause of these evils. We cannot expect the present small corps of English instructors to do further duty. But we can expect that an earnest appeal shall be made for sufficient funds to establish new professorships, or procure new assistants, in this important branch of study. But while the present overcrowding of both instructors and students continues, it will be difficult to induce men of high reputation to come here, men worthy of sitting in company with the many truly famous professors whose names appear upon our catalogue...
...answer her earnest prayers...