Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This is true," said President Little is conclusion, "not only on the athletic field but in every branch of activity that demands earnest effort, such as college publication, dramatic activities and debating. This last I think to be an especially good intellectual developer. The process of getting to the bottom of a subject--and you can't do that without a good deal of hard work--is a good steadying influence on the mind and reasoning powers. So long as a student can keep above board in his work I think his other activities should not only be permitted...
...plan ought not to be permitted to die in its infancy from lack of consistent support. The Golf Association can be kept hale and vigorous; and a modest course fund should be started. Then, when the alumni see that the project is being carried forward in earnest, they may reasonably be relied on to step in and bring it to a successful close...
...method of selecting candidates which in any way violates the principles laid down in the Declaration of Independence or the rights of American citizens as guaranteed by the Constitution". It is a serious thing, as he says, "to shut the door in the face of the eager, aspiring, earnest youth who has set his heart on coming to college...
...suggests that the speaker had a twinkle in his inward eye when he summoned Youth to labor for leadership. He knew that intelligent, earnest effort is the lesson which Youth must learn, and he understood that the way to encourage it was to offer attractive rewards in the form of freedom and progress. What he says about a rebellion of Youth we must take with a grain of salt. He himself hardly wants Age to be thrown in the discard; what he does want, artfully, is for Youth to want it so; because he knows that only through the discontent...
...educational centre of the community. As for the Summer School; but then, even the sight of pretty "coeds" disporting themselves on the shady paths in front of Holworthy will hardly turn the determined undergraduate from his purpose. The Summer School must go; progress demands it! For now the earnest student can listen to any distinguished professor while camping in the Maine woods or en route to Europe...