Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most noticeable characteristic of student life and thought in European universities, perhaps, is its depth-the desire to go to the root of matters. They are apt to be narrower than we are, in some respects, and to dislike organizations, but on the other hand they are more in earnest and deeper in their life and thought...
...wanted, but the more experienced players as well, for all will find the spring's work a great benefit. There has never been a year when Harvard had a stronger incentive to win than she will have next autumn. That she cannot win without the most thorough and earnest work has been shown by past experience. That she shall win should be every Harvard man's deter mination and every, man called upon should contribute his share toward success by joining the foot ball squad...
...third college conference meeting in the present series will be held to night in Sever 11. The speaker will be Rev. Brooke Herford, and his subject will be "Ministry." As pastor of the Arlington St. Unitarian church in Boston, Dr. Herford is well known to Harvard men as an earnest and eloquent preacher, and his views on this strictly orthodox subject cannot fail to interest the great body of students here...
...board makes its bow to the college. The editorials are largely devoted to an outline of the course which the editors intend to pursue. "We apprecate our peculiar position," they say, "and the difficulties under which we must of necessity labor at the beginning. However, it shall be our earnest purpose to represent consistently and truthfully the liberal and progressive spirit of the college." The college will observe with interest the result of the experiment...
...attendance at the meeting of the Co-operative society last evening is any sign, the members intend to place implicit confidence in the new board of directors. These officers will have before them a task which will require great activity and earnest work, if they undertake to correct the abuses we have already called attention to. The society appears to have been badly managed and to be sadly in need of reform. With a suitable superintendent, and a board of officers elected especially for the purpose. great improvements ought to be made in the coming year...