Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until the third set was well advanced did the University pair begin to play more in earnest, taking their service game in short order to bring the count from 3-5 to 4-5. It was then too late, however, for their half-hearted rally did not prevent the M. I. T. men from wining the next game and with...
Educators have long dreamed of a Utopian circle of earnest, well-meaning students, an ideal working unit, with no professors to hamper free intellectual development by the imposition of mechanical exercises and bootless reports. Discussion in this happy family would replace lectures; and idea-killing assignments would be unknown. The difficulty, of course, has been in finding the earnest students. But now, university education appears to be returning to its sources, and the mediaevalist recalls the scenes in Bologna when the students at the University drove their unpopular instructors from the gates of the town...
...married to her best friend, and she feels it her duty to care for him and nurse him back to health. Meanwhile her father has gone bankrupt and has died from the shock, but Abigail, friendless and in financial straits, still has strength to refuse the wounded man's earnest proposal, though she loves him, and to make her way "into the black night--alone...
...earnest desire of the committee that the work of the Mission may each year be of increasing service and that suggestions will be received from all interested members of the University, Faculty, and alumni. By obtaining new ideas and trying them out in different fields it is possible to extend the scope of service and thus be taking a progressive step in the future...
...deal with more minute or obtuse aspects of a subject, and they give to the student the satisfaction that is to be had from advancing a little beyond the commonplace front line. Without one or two of them, no program of Concentration is put to its full advantage. The earnest student finds in them the most profitable part of his work; and the suggestion recently made will give them additional attraction...