Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...eminently fitting that these keys should be delivered to your hands (addressing the Dean of the Dental School) for it is by the effort, the earnest faith and the conscientious work of yourself and your colleagues that these buildings have been erected, and it is by your wisdom, sir, that they will be made an ever-increasing source of usefulness to the community...
...first year in College each student be required to present to his adviser a plan of study for the remainder of his College course; and that the plan must conform to the general principles laid down by the committee, unless the committee is satisfied that the student is earnest and has sufficient grounds for departing from those principles...
...realize of course the earnest attempt that the captains of our teams have made to supply from their own knowledge and exertions the places filled by professional trainers in more favored colleges. Probably their service has been as wise and their supervision as careful as amateurs could possibly have given. It is also true that the overshadowing importance of football in the public interest would be likely to divert the bulk of the coaching away to that sport. It is hard, we know, to find money to foster these minor sports which bring in no gate receipts, and Harvard...
...restoration of class unity by a change in the social conditions of Freshman year. They are important questions, both to Harvard and to the cause of education throughout the country,--problems not to be solved in a day or a year, but worthy of a lifetime of earnest labor...
...restoration of class unity by a change in the social conditions of Freshman year. They are important questions, both to Harvard and to the cause of education throughout the country,--problems not to be solved in a day or a year, but worthy of a lifetime of earnest labor...