Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...practice almost anywhere on the quieter streets off Massachusetts avenue between the hours of one and three A. M. Find a window, preferably a cellar-window, though one leading to an acquaintance's room is a real delicacy; and slipping up to it unobserved, give it an unexpected but earnest kick. If the window yields, you have scored a point, and you may flee, shrieking with laughter to sidewalks new. The present University glass-kicking team has seven of the panes in Mr. Morse's lunch-room to its credit, and the inhabitants of Mt. Auburn street await...
Governor Woodrow Wilson's address of last Saturday brings out many points of very special interest in these days of strenuous and earnest social reform movement. There is a common error nowadays into which the over-zealous reformer is very apt to fall, namely that of judging the value of a principle or an action solely by its indirect consequences. Thus, in private property rights, the socialist sees an evil, not because the holding of private property is in itself a wrong, but because evil has resulted from the abuse of this right. In like manner he declares the present...
Governor Wilson pointed out with remarkable clearness that the majority of the present day evils arise not from the fundamentals of the "present system", but from its abuses. The cry of the earnest, over-zealous socialist, therefore, is "Abolish a system which permits of such atrocities." The cry of every honest, conservative reformer, on the other hand, is "Enforce the present system in all the purity of its fundamental principles, and the evils will no longer have any place". They are both striving for the same worthy end, but one seeks to accomplish it by the destruction of some positive...
...work was the more appreciated because of extreme weather conditions which prevailed and the closeness of the vote. The sweeping victory resulting was a cause for satisfaction, and I trust that the men obtained interesting experience from seeing the actual working of the Australian Ballot as used in Boston. EARNEST E. SMITH...
Preliminary practice for the University hockey squad ended last evening, and with the football men reporting for work on Monday Coach Winsor will begin in earnest the development of a first team. It is generally conceded that with the exception of goal for which position S. B. Smart and H. B. Gardner will probably have a close fight, the defence will be made up from the football men. Unless Captain Huntington is moved up from his last year's place, however, positions in the forward line will be filled mainly from among those men who are already out. Of these...