Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...called a plot at all, and a style too soft and adjectival. Descriptive details are good, however, and presented in a cheerful tone. In a brief editorial the editor-in-chief makes a graciously apologetic bow before retiring. We certainly feel like thanking him and his associates for their earnest efforts, and wishing the new board a return to the old brown cover and a year full of success...
...feeling effectively restrained, and a gift for poetic expression. Mr. K. A. Robinson's "Ballad of Famous Princes," is a vigorous poem, pleasingly sonorous, well rounded off in thought and form. Mr. G. H. Code's "Lusitania" is an appropriate dirge, too quiet for the subject, but dingified and earnest. There are three smoothly adequate descriptive lyrics: Mr. H. Hendrson's "The Twllight Mourner," on rural evening and the whip-poor-will; Mr. R. S. Mitchell's "Threnody," a fresh impression of love in Aegean landscapes; and Mr. E. Whittlesey's "Along the Wall," vague but rather pretty...
...team considerably. The university football management has announced that the early season practice for the university squad will start on Tuesday, September 7, the first day after Labor Day. The practice will consist of light preliminary work for about a week and then the squad will get down to earnest work in preparation for the opening game with the University of Maine on September...
...earnest wish that the following circumstances of Saturday's Yale meet be brought vividly before the College and strongly impressed upon every...
...CRIMSON Clouters, fresh from their victory over the candidates, will take on the Phi Beta Kappa ball team for a nine-round go on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. Although the new baseball stands are not yet completed, an earnest attempt will be made to accommodate the crowd...