Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like counters. This would seem to indicate that the students lived at an advanced stage of civilization, in which food was looked on merely as a necessity to be acquired as rapidly as possible. The society of the convivial board must have been unknown, at least to the more earnest and stole of the students...
McCabe in the Boston Herald, after describing Burke' remarkable double victory, analysed the Crimson success as follows: "That typifies the work of the Harvard boys throughout the contest. Just imagine for a moment lads outdoing themselves and you have the Harvard picture in earnest. Fourteen boys won their letters in track yesterday for the first time at Harvard, an example in earnest of the green Harvard team that out battled the Starr strewn Elis. If one counts the "H" men who scored yesterday for the Crimson but five will be found who had tallied in former battles with Yale. Spirit...
...already approached over 100 men in regard to attending the conference, and it is felt that a large percentage of these will do so. So far, the drive for membership has been in preliminary stages only, but after the April recess, it will begin in earnest...
...committee at home during the period, articles by Harvard graduates in the missionary field, together with illustrated photographs, an article on the Harvard-Yale Mission Conference held on November 18th, and also suggestions as to the future. The report will be published about June 1st. It is the 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. Only by considering the various possibilities and trying out new ideas from time to time can an advance...
...speaking to the Freshman Coach Bingham again emphasized gradual improvement gained through earnest practice as a means of attaining final success, while Coach Tolbert said that although the material was as good if not better in quality than in most years, more men were needed, especially in the weight, discus, and javelin throws...