Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...duty he expected of all his followers. A Christian must first be manly, noble and pure himself, and then teach others how to be so. The hardest part of a Christian's life was to confess God man to man, to try to make other men true and earnest in their life. Yet this is the duty of every Christian...
...fail rapidly. In hope of relief he returned to his home again, where he died within a few months. While in Colorado he kept up with his studies, intending, if his health permitted, to enter his class this fall. He was a quiet, conscientious student, with a manly, earnest character and was devoted to his college...
...feel they would like to do something this fall in athletics. To such the track offers the greatest chance of attaining success. The greatest number of successful athletes at Harvard have always been men who have come to college with no athletic reputation, but who have developed by earnest conscientious work. The work, carried on as it is under the direction of an expert in physical training, cannot but be beneficial to health...
...members of the Faculty offer to President Eliot their congratulations on the completion of this long period of noble and devoted service. We add to those congratulations the expression of our earnest hope that he may continue to direct the destinies of Harvard for many years to come; and that these years may be as honorable, brilliant, and fortunate as those which have passed, bringing their abundant rewards, in the growing dignity and usefulness of the University, and in every happiness of private life...
...insinuation that fear was a motive for declining to play the game falls flat. The earnest wish of the Harvard management is that the tie shall be played off, and to that end the management has worked and is now working...