Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...entitled to nothing that he does not earn by earnest, honest, efficient work. President Taft is not entitled to renomination. Those who charge Roosevelt with disloyalty are ignorant of the facts or wish to mislead the people. Roosevelt was never truer to his ideals and duties as a citizen than when he accepted the call to leadership in this struggle for political progress...
...mind goes back to "Alaric Jourdan's House." Without in any way disparaging the efforts of the earnest and sincere young people concerned in the other pieces, to Mr. Townsend, Miss Gragg, Mr. Woodward and Mr. Searle the honors of the Club's spring production go. EARL DERR BIGGERS...
...remark commonly attributed to President Kirkland of Harvard College that the only use of statistics was in refuting other statistics suggests itself. But, more seriously considered, it seems likely that the law school stood with many boys prepared in private schools for the first thoroughly earnest intellectual effort. Not needing the monetary scholarships at college, they were satisfied with 'gentlemen's marks'; but, aroused by the call of professional ambition in the law school, they had thrown themselves into the work with enthusiasm...
...would surely be held for making a mountain of a mole-hill and quibbling over a point which was after all a matter of opinion. We cannot close our eyes, however, to the deduction that any College student might naturally draw from the Herald's conclusion, i.e. that earnest intellectual effort in College has after all little effect upon intellectual achievement in the Law School, and that if a man only makes up his mind to work hard i the Law School, it makes little difference whether he has worked hard, or not at all, in College. This...
...been looking forward to an early relief from his most strenuous cares, the department has to depend upon him more than ever. He is once more chairman. For one reason or another most of the rest of us are idle or absent. I want to express my earnest gratitude that he is still at the helm of our philosophical ship. May he be our guide on many another birthday. It makes me well to feel his guidance now. JOSIAH ROYCE...