Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first service in Appleton Chapel takes place tomorrow night and we trust there is no need of urging a large and earnest attendance. The Sunday evening services have become a source of infinite enjoyment to those of us who do not leave Cambridge for that day and are a fitting exercise for the beginning of the week's work. Prayers begin on the following morning and it is to them that we wish to call special attention...
Harry Keyes came last Wednesday afternoon. It is impossible for me to use words that would express the feeling of delight that filled the heart of every crew man as they saw him coming towards the float. Cheer after cheer sounded across the river from the throats of eleven earnest men. It is needless to say that every man is working at his best to do everything that the coach desires; and if the crew does not win it will not be because they have not tried card to learn to row but because they could not in the length...
...interpretation of Scripture, of creed and form. Yet through all these perplexities, which are, after all, side issues, certain fundamental truths stand out in perfect clearness, unobscured by personal feeling. The beautiful relation of Christ to men is one of these truths. The preacher ended with an earnest plea for breadth of view in the great truths and principles which effect all sects and creeds alike...
...certain insight into the workings of the college which he would otherwise know little about, and also throws a man into contact with interesting people and varied aspects of college life. In some degree, too, the paper is, we feel, a help to the college and gives an earnest man a chance to make his influence felt. We hope that a number of men even if they may not have definitely made up their minds to try for the paper, will attend the meeting this evening to see what the work consists...
...earnest desire of the committee, that the delegation from Harvard should be especially large. The conference lasts eleven days, from July 2d to 13th, the total expense for the meeting being $17, with reduced rates on all the railroads...