Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...announcement was made that the War Department at Washington had appointed Captain Constant Cordier, U. S. A., to command the Harvard Regiment. Headquarters were established at Weld 3, preliminary talks and meetings were held, and with a total enrolment of 950 the members of the Regiment began work in earnest...
...college one may also find numerous sun circles. A person with a real smile makes the difference of a cloudy day changed to a sunshiny day. The slightest semblance of a joke, in a tense atmosphere of a class room, often causes the whole assemblage to laugh violently. The earnest person needs many sun circles flashed into his make-up to keep him human and with a true perspective. An occasional joke or smile or other evidence of sense of humor trickle the sun circles into life and make the highlights and the shades stand out more clearly. --Michigan Daily...
...sponsors, of the generous financial support of the Aero Club of America, graduates and others, and of the assistance and valuable advice given by those interested in the movement. Also the committee especially appreciates the co-operation of the schools and instructors, and above all else, the earnest, unfailing energy, patience and determination of those undergraduates who devoted their summer to this work and who are primarily responsible for the results obtained. ROGER AMORY '10. ALLAN FORBES '97. G. H. BALCH '12." The financial statement follows...
...will play its first game of the season tomorrow evening, meeting a team called the "B. A. A. Candidates" in the Arena at 8.15. This game is not on the regular schedule but has been arranged so as to give the team some experience before the season starts in earnest after Christmas. Admission will be at 50 cents, 75 cents, and one dollar...
...wise as to be able to say that one faction is altogether just, the other altogether evil. At such a time when all wisdom is clouded, and virtue takes on the appearance of sin, no single mind may declare the truth. One should hardly allow his partisanship, however earnest, nor his neutrality, however firm, to bind his liberality...