Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first regular meeting of the Ethical Society the following officers were elected: president, M. R. Cohen 1G.; vice-president, D. Pottinger '06; secretary-treasurer, B. Beckhard '07; member of the executive committee. J. A. Harley '06. A constitution was adopted, embodying the object of the society,--to promote an earnest interest in problems of practical ethics and to encourage effort toward the highest ideals in personal, political, and social life...
...influenced from different motives. The primary incentive, however, should be the objective good which we can do for others. Some are interested from the personal or subjective pleasure which they realize from their work; others are drawn into philanthropy by a sense of social obligation and civic pride. Earnest social work with our fellowmen should give us a practical knowledge of social conditions, and enable us to exercise a more perfect judgment in choosing the suitable remedies...
Four pages of the report are devoted to a severe but discriminating arraignment of the game of football. President Eliot declares it is time that the public should understand and take into earnest consideration the objections to this game. As the lesser objections he mentions extreme publicity, the large proportion of injuries, the absorption of the undergraduate mind in the subject for two months and the disproportionate exaltation of the football hero in the college world. "The football hero," he says, "is useful in a society of young men if he illustrates generous strength and leads a clean life...
...politics, the possessors merely of brutal cash, they have become one of the most serious problems of the church. The solution of these problems, the church finds in the priesthood of the laity. This is the reason that it has the right to ask college men to be earnest and to follow the example of such men as George Frisbie Hoar, whose name is to be mentioned reverently, and with bowed head...
...Harvard's First Scholars, 1850-1859," Mr. W. R. Thayer '81, recapitulates briefly the occupations and deeds of the first ten students, in the classes for those years. Such an article bearing on the never settled question of academic distinctions in college as an earnest of future services, is always of interest. An article by Professor Kuno Francke on "Emperor William's Gift to Harvard," is a reprint of his speech delivered at the opening exercises of the Germanic Museum, November 10. "From a Graduate's Window: Contrasts Pleasant or Otherwise," presents strikingly the in-adequacy of the salaries...