Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...gratifying fact has stood out that the Institute has discovered for the university a constituency of earnest, thoughful people who are ready to receive eagerly and sympathetically and in surprisingly large numbers, not as dillettantes, but as serious students, the best that the university has to offer them...
...endorsed the old slogan, "My country, right or wrong." He said in substance: "Some people think this is not ethical, but it is at least national and that is enough, for in a democracy the majority's will must rule." It seems, however, that Professor R. B. Perry, another earnest advocate of universal military service, in the last number of The New Republic presents a view which Harvard men will more readily endorse. "Loyalty to one's country," he says, "unless one understands its policy and helps to mould it, is simply a renouncing of one's judgment...
...defied the degeneracy of inertia. When the regiment marched in Saturday's parade and when it drilled today in the Stadium it quickened the pulses and brought cheers to the lips of all persons who watched. And the response awakened by these boys was the natural response which earnest men and women cannot help giving to the strength of young manhood when they see it embodied before them in a way that proves the surviving force of the nation, and that shows determination not only to hold to ideals but also to link them with deeds...
...Boston Chamber of Commerce placed their approval on the Plattsburg idea during the past week when they voted to issue a letter urging employers to do all that they find practicable to encourage the enlistment of men in their employment in the camps, which, they say, deserve the earnest support of all who desire more adequate national defence...
...attention of the Department has been called to the patriotic spirit of your committee, and your earnest endeavors to promote interest in the Naval Training Cruise for Civilians among your fellow students, and to secure recruits for the same...