Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard football campaign for 1925 will get under way in earnest tonight with a meeting at the Varsity Club at 7 o'clock for all men who expect to try for the team next fall. The football management wishes it distinctly to be understood that attendance is not optional, but that it is imperative for all prospective candidates to be present...
Critic Boyd is too Sensitive to Be Earnest in Public...
...that Mr. Boyd is ever actually serious. He is at once too sensitive and too self-assured to become earnest in public. His concern with men is not vicarious. It is the concern of a formalist who takes you among men to show you the shapes of their minds, their ideas, their words and how they use them, their manners and how men are revealed therein. Being vigorous and Irish, he walks close beside you, pointing here, there, with nervous, witty gusto. Being excessively sensitive and shy, he hides himself behind a mask of erudite satire whenever...
...knowledge that something is agley in undergraduatedom, President Marion LeRoy Burton of Michigan University called to him Robert C. Angell of the Sociology Department. He sent Dr. Angell on a quest. Last week Dr. Angell returned, after talking with many another uneasy educator, and many young men and women, earnest no end and either utterly complacent or badly worried over themselves. Dr. Angell wrote a report: "College is no longer a place for those who wish to become cultured. It is a social prac- tice ground. Men and women come here to make friends and to carry on mutual undertakings...
...founded in 1886 and bought by Mr. Hearst in 1905), which in 1912 became purely a fiction magazine. Evidently the crusading was felt to be not the strongest selling feature of Hearst's International, for, though ax-grinding continued, bolstered by "human interest" features ranging in tenor from the earnest optimism of the American Magazine to the flatulent body-worship of the Macfadden publications, the emphasis was more than ever on fiction. Last year, Norman Hapgood, widely known through his associations with Collier's and Harper's, was put in charge as editor; but, in spite of this, the International...