Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After the recess, scrimmage practice will be begun in earnest under the direction of L. M. Lombard '17, the new Freshman hockey coach, in preparation for the first game which will come soon after college re-opens. More candidates are still needed and may report with the squad in January. If the Charlesbank rinks are available practice will probably be held there...
...Thirty or forty years ago there was the same discussion of academic freedom as today, but then the conflict waged about Darwin. Many earnest persons argued that no college professor should be allowed to support the Darwinian theory lest the young college man lose his religion. The investigation of evolution continued, however; the Darwinians won, and no one now contends that the results have been fatal to religion or morality...
Owing to the demand made by the general public for tickets to the Concert Series in Sanders Theatre to be given by the University Glee Club on December 4, February 19, and May 27, the management of the Club makes an earnest demand that the undergraduate body obtain their tickets this week...
Practically all of the University's engineering buildings and laboratories were given over to government use during the war, and therefore after the Radio School's demobilization had been completed, the extensive remodelling process for the reorganized Harvard Engineering School were begun in earnest. In this work, Pierce Hall, which will be the headquarters, containing most of the offices, class rooms and drafting rooms, has been extensively changed. Partitions out in by the Navy have all been torn down and the whole building rewired and repainted. A modern oil-burning plant has been substituted for the old coal-consuming system...
...annual fall rowing regatta opened yesterday afternoon with a race between Thayer 3 and Eliot 3 as the initial event, the former winning by a length and a half over the mile course. Today the regatta will begin in earnest with a schedule of four events...