Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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From this time the work will be steady and vigorous, and we shall see an interesting struggle for the positions in the boat as finally made up. The men all seem to be decidedly in earnest and no one will allow a place to be filled without a tremendous effort on his part...
...statements of Mr. Moses Williams in regard to the condition of the library reading room fund call for the most earnest consideration on the part of the undergraduate body of the University. The pressing need of a suitable reading room furnished with electric light is too generally felt to admit of more than one opinion regarding the scheme developed two years ago to supply the want. This plan, thanks to the individual energy of two or three men, was put into practical operation with such success as Mr. Williams' report shows. This twenty-two thousand dollars, the total of cash...
...hope that the men in Ninety-five will come to a realizing sense of their position. The present material for their crew is exceedingly scant and unpromising. It is hoped that the foot ball material will furnish stronger men; but what is really needed is a more courageous and earnest spirit on the part of the whole class. They cannot expect to accomplish anything unless they awake into activity at once and for all from the half-hearted and lethagic interest which they are now showing in their crew...
...president of the Union, made an earnest appeal for financial support. The Union, he said, has had a large natural growth, and needed more money than is furnished by the dues of twenty-five cents a month paid by all members. More rooms are needed, a raiding room especially, better furnished rooms, and a small reserve fund. Sustaining memberships are $5 annually, associate memberships $2. It is proposed later to form an association of all members, which shall meet occasionally to discuss the affairs of the Union, and provide for its financial support...
...which enables man to seek through introspection to commune with the Eternal Spirit and receive divine illumination. After giving a short account of what the Mysticism has accomplished in past ages, he explains very lucidly the causes which have lessened its power at the present day and makes an earnest plea for this philosophy of the inner, the spirit world. "For it is the Mystics," he says, "who tell us of our deeper, truer, diviner natures, and reveal to us the inner springs of life which are the sources of our power. They lift us out of the whirl...