Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...From Jest to Earnest" is an absurdity after Stockton's style, though it lacks the plausibility with which that master of absurdities always clothes his impossible imaginations. A little elaboration here and there, especially of the passage that deals with the proposals, would not have been amiss...
...Hasty Pudding building on Holmes Field. This insures an amount of uninterrupted practice which was not always to be had at Roberts Hall. As far as can be judged at present, the material of the club is fully up to the average of freshman glee clubs, and with earnest work ought to develop well...
...Lord, and not unto men." He said: These closing chapters of Paul's epistles are always full of practical suggestions and sound principles, and are very helpful to everyone. This passage suggests three thoughts: First, breadth of Christian service. This is a practical age, and the pressure towards earnest and exacting work is so great that many men seem to find little time for religious work. But they make their great mistake in thinking that going to church is the only religious work to be done. Everything that we do is done unto the Lord, if it is done...
...Chicago University, are thus attained at Harvard also. This is a distinct gain, made here without disturbing the old method of university life. For it is undoubtedly true, as President Eliot says, "that six weeks of assiduous application to one subject for eight hours a day enables an earnest student to make an extraordinary progress in a new language or a new science." The opportunity for this especially in the courses which require field-work, is very advantageously offered in the summer, and the statistics show that a gradually increasing number of men are coming to realize the fact...
...gains by classes during the last year. The second of these tables shows that the number of men who entered a higher class was larger than the number of those who were dropped and entered a lower class. This is significant as another fact proving how much the earnest and scholarly spirit predominates in the work done here. Last year the Dean pointed with pride in his report to the fact that a large proportion of the men who had been dropped had regained their regular standing, thus showing that the percentage of really lazy and indifferent...