Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...association striking" against themselves would appear ludicrous to us, if we did not fear that it might breed among the misinformed results utterly ruinous to the purposes of the Association. What is needed is not the threat of repudiation of a bona fide debt by withdrawal, but rather an earnest attempt to insure a larger membership in order that the obligations of the Association may be more widely apportioned and the price of board for each individual be reduced to a more normal level than at present obtains...
...sure the weather has not been favorable to hockey of any kind and at best there have been but two rinks available, one for the University squad and one for the Freshmen. Both these barriers are now removed, as winter seems to have settled down in earnest and the Freshmen play their last game next Saturday...
...Wendell, Harvard Union, before February 1. Otherwise men will be allotted to boxes at the convenfonte of the committee. A list of men who have not been included in box applications is printed today in the notice column. All these men are urged to make an earnest effort to aid the committee. 1909 UNION DANCE COMMITTEE...
...leading article, "Debating at Harvard University," Mr. E. R. Lewis sounds an alarm to more than the merely inevitable candidates for this branch of activity. He urges men of wide interests, as well, to participate. His plea is undoubtedly earnest and timely, though one could wish that what he conceives to be the greatest benefit from debating--the mental training--had been less dully expounded. In these days, when undergraduate parlance is so largely composed of indiscriminate, dis-jointed burlesque, assuredly much should be made of any pleasurable exercise which is likely to create real mental fabric...
...authorities are really in earnest and mean that speculation shall stop, the blacklist must be published. A vast amount of effort was expended this year in detecting speculation, and if it is not to be wasted, the results must be made known. The moral effect of merely depriving a man of his privileges is no longer sufficient. The only way in which those who contemplate using privileges for personal gain can be brought to their senses is by publicly disgracing those already caught...