Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been spent upon new material. The work consists of light, plain oar practice and work on the machines. Eight candidates are working every day. Very soon those candidates who have been playing foot ball on their class teams will join the squad and lively work will begin. An earnest and interesting struggle for the positions in the boat may be expected this year...
...crew is very fortunate to have D. F. Jones '92 to coach them. He has had a valuable experience in rowing and needs only good material and earnest support to turn out a good crew next June...
...needs, and, above all, it has brought out more of the boundless grace and strength of the character of Christ, Himself, than was ever comprehended before. There may be atheists and agnostics in the world, and they are very often noisy, but underneath all is a growing body of earnest, men who are doing grand work for Christianity and doing it as steadily as quietly...
...lack of interest which are inevitable when there is no clearly defined purpose before the members. We do not mean to say that the Western trip is the main object ahead of the Glee Club; far from it. But such an enjoyable trip is certainly an incentive to more earnest and eager effort. This year, we are credably informed, there is every possibility that the club will make the trip...
...striking characteristic, perhaps, is the steadfastness with which it has followed out the liberal and progressive spirit of the University. Many changes, radical in outward form, have taken place in Harvard during the past four years; yet at the bottom they have all been but the exemplars of the earnest spirit of advance which pervades every department here. Officers and instructors could not have made progress in this work were it not for the help of the students; and today, as we look back over the past four years, we can see that Ninety-one has been an able helper...