Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nearly straightforward vigor; in all, or nearly all, it has now and then seemed pretentious to persons who have been unable to take it so seriously as the editors have done. The fact remains that, for these twenty-five years as a whole, it has been the most earnest and the best fulfillment of the creative and critical literary impulses in this University, if not in any university of America. More than most groups of college students, its editors have kept personal likes and dislike in the back-ground, and have chosen as their working comrades and successors...
...Illustrated Magazine was lifted by Mr. Hans von Kaltenborn to an important place among college papers, and the present Editorial Board are holding it there. The April number is substantial and earnest. Much of it lacks literary finish; some of it is crude; but nearly all of it has the great merit of serious purpose--which covers a multitude of rhetorical sins. The leading article, Professor Meyer's speech on War and Civilization, is a remarkable presentation of doctrine abhorrent to many, and a masterly eulogy of war. Mr. Henderson's Harvard in Cambridge Politics, though poorly written, is worth...
...committee was instructed in administering these general rules for the choice of electives by candidates for a degree in Harvard College to make exceptions to the rules freely in the case of earnest men who desire to change at a later time the plans made in their Freshman year, and to make liberal allowances for students who show that their courses are well distributed, even though they may not conform exactly to the rules laid down for distribution. In making exceptions to the rules, a man's previous training and outside reading are to be taken into account...