Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...part or the whole of their life to teaching. Last year the questions discussed were connected with some of the most important educational problems of the time; the speakers had a thorough and practical acquaintance with their subjects, and the tone of the whole meeting was one of earnest inquiry and able investigation...
...conpares favorably with that of other institutions, and, as to the good faith of the University, the liberal protection that the Annex has received in the past, and the unanimous spirit in favor of the change that is expressed by the overseers of the University, ought to be sufficient earnest of fair treatment in the future. There is no objection to the legislature's providing that no degree of A. B. shall be conferred by the Annex without the approval of the University. It is desired that the University may have control over the Annex just...
Each age has built in but one style of architecture, and this style has represented the union in earnest effort of heart, head and hand. It is because of the untiring energy with which the masters of these former ages have striven to incarnate the ideas of their epochs in their works, that their results have been so perfect and so lasting...
About thirty men assembled in the trophy room of the gymnasium last night in response to Captain Wiggin's call for candidates for the 'varsity baseball nine. Captain Wiggin stated that, under the present circumstances, the most earnest efforts on the part of each candidate were necessary in order that Harvard should be fittingly represented. All the candidates will commence work this afternoon, but, for the present, they will be confined to light practice. The candidates will take short out-door runs whenever permissible, and will not be compelled to slide for at least a week. The following...
...line of missionary endeavor, it is not likely to be felt at home nearly so soon as abroad. The call to leave home and friends to go to a foreign country where everything is uncertain, is not so inviting as work in one's own country. Yetan earnest, fearless spirit will not be daunted by this, and college men who feel themselves naturally fitted for foreign missionary work, can do nothing nobler than to go into...