Word: earnest
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...Earnest E. Smith '02, alternate, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1880. He prepared for college at the Roxbury Latin School where he played on the school football team. At College he has rowed on his class crew and played on his class football team. He was elected president of the class debating clubs in his Junior and Senior years, and has represented his class in outside debates against Holy Cross and Bates Colleges. He is a member of the Class Day Photograph Committee...
...conclusion that the serious and important work which is to be done there in connection with pathology and bacteriology would have most strongly commended itself to the personal interest and the wise judgment of my deceased husband, who was always deeply interested in promoting opportunities for sincere and earnest work in the best fields of labor. I will therefore contribute the sum of $250,000 for the construction of the pathological and bacteriological laboratory, and should prefer that this amount should be paid from time to time as the construction of the building progresses and in such manner...
...Christian Association, made the last speech of the evening. With directness and force, he outlined the hopes and plans for the coming year, and especially the one preeminent aim of the association--that it may be so broad as to unite in straight-forward religious life and work all earnest Harvard men, and that creed and form, while not considered lightly, may yet be subordinate to unity in fundamental moral, ethical and religious purposes...
...religious thought. Yet the many-sided views of President Eliot, of Major Higginson, of Col. Hallowell, of Bishop Lawrence and the other men who spoke, coincided in the one fundamental principle, emphasized by Frautz as the chief aim of the association, that religion, if it is religion, means an earnest and purposeful life and active and definite social service--and that such religion lays claim to the allegiance of every...
...also the earnest wish of the Semitic Department that Harvard should conduct explorations in Babylonia-Assyria, from which country have come the most impressive of all Semitic discoveries. Another field which invites the departments more strongly than any other is Palestine. Little exploration has yet been done there, yet Palestine is so important in the world's history that even small results in the number of objects found would reward large expenditure of time and money...