Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...revising the New Testament of King James' version, and on their recommendation a committee was formed to undertake it Committees were formed on both sides of the water, and each member came to the meeting with suggestions on the translation or on the text. The debate was long and earnest. Much public interest was shown in the movement, and every one of the four millions of copies issued in the first year was sold...
...Appleton Chaple excited no comment. This fact seems to us worthy of attention, for it is evidence of the breadth of thought which now exists at Harvard, but which is likely to be misconstrued by outsiders. Harvard is essentially liberal in all its ideas. It is our most earnest wish to look at questions from all points of view, and in matters of religion as well as other subjects, we are consistent. This desire to cultivate a liberal spirit, to show that we respect the honest opinions of all men, leads us to ask if it would not be best...
...special students deserves attention, for it closes to loafers the only part of the university at which they might matriculate. We have wished that this might be done. Harvard can never again be accused of harboring men who come to college merely for social or athletic purposes and the earnest desire to help workers here and not loafers is made more clear than ever before...
...money for a new reading room has been organized among us and that subscriptions are coming in from the men in college. We could not find a better way to show the freinds of the college outside that the need is a pressing one and that we are in earnest and do not mean to let our present insufficient accommodations remain as they are if we can help...
There have been enough men out for two elevens from the first, so the men have been put to work every day playing a game. The men are apt to think they are out for fun rather than work, however, and do not settle down to earnest effective work. Further it has only been because of the constant and untiring efforts of the captain that the men have been induced to come out. Some of them cannot see the necessity of appearing at practice every afternoon. They do not seem to realize their obligation to the class to come...