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Word: earnest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University. Plans will be discussed for a permanent organization of an efficient character. It is not so much the desire of the Progressive managers to have a very large organization as to have active men who are ready and willing to give what time they can spare in earnest endeavor to help the party. Assurances of support from the office of the Progressive National Executive Committee in New York have already been received...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLITICAL MEETINGS TODAY | 9/25/1912 | See Source »

...hundred and seventy-six years have passed since the founding of this University and in that time a prayer service has been held here almost every morning. Some of the prayers have been strange ones but all have come from the hearts of earnest men. They have been offered in times when the nation was in great trouble and in times of great national prosperity and happiness. If we see more light than our predecessors did, it is because their prayers have been answered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRES. LOWELL IN APPLETON | 9/24/1912 | See Source »

...class of 1912 will be the last to hold its Commencement festivities under the elms. Steps toward making a more beautiful Yard have been taken in earnest, and after Class Day every elm in the Quadrangle will be cut down, in order to make room for the 64 small red oaks which are now being transplanted. The aged trees have not improved during the past few years and this spring only one or two show any signs of life. The authorities have decided that the elms are hopeless and that they must be removed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVERY ELM IN YARD MUST GO | 4/30/1912 | See Source »

...meeting of the Speakers' Club in the Trophy Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock, Professor I. L. Winter '86, of the department of Public Speaking will read "The Importance of Being Earnest", a comedy by Oscar Wilde...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reading from Oscar Wilde Tonight | 4/30/1912 | See Source »

...Speakers' Club will hold a smoker in the Trophy Room of the Union on Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock Professor I. L. Winter '86, Faculty member of the executive committee of the Speakers' Club, will read "The Importance of Being Earnest", a comedy by Oscar Wilde...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Speaker's Club Smoker Tuesday | 4/27/1912 | See Source »

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