Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...select his field of study and in that way is likely to be aware of the man who will tutor him. So on the one hand an undergraduate might stay in residence for a period of years with very little work to his credit, while on the other an earnest and ambitious student can attain a degree of intellectual development in three years which, perhaps, will in certain ways put him ahead of the ordinary high scholar of an American institution. High scholarship is more highly prized at Oxford than at Harvard...
Baseball practice for Freshmen will commence in earnest this afternoon when fielders and battery men will report at Soldiers Field at 4.15. Coach Davidson will be in charge and will devote his attention to preliminary conditioning during the first few weeks...
...meantime, while the Boss is making up his mind about our earnest request for him to go ahead with his libel suit, and not to quit after he starts, we repeat and re-emphasize our statements, which were...
Machine work in crew is now in full swing and Coach Stevens has named three tentative University eights. He has also called out the coxswains. Another major sport will get under way in earnest with a meeting of 1924 baseball candidates on Monday...
...Hossain is an earnest opponent of war, and denounces the psychology that makes war possible--the ignorant national egotism which expresses itself in "cants of national superiority." "I was in England when the war broke out," he said, "and it was amazing to see educated men and women, cultured people supposedly with intellectual poise, almost instantaneously convinced that every one of the 60,000,000 Germans were Huns. The same thing would happen if the United States declared war on Japan...