Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...class, was a member of the Second Football Team, and a Business Editor of the Lampoon. In his Junior year he was chairman of the Dance Committee and also took a part in the Hasty Pudding Play. During all of his three years at college he was an earnest, keen student...
...impersonal bronze statue in the delta, valuable only as a subject for cartoonists. But that name and that statue have a deeper significance. The pensive young Puritan seated in the shadow of Memorial Hall embodies in a way the spirit that the University is proudest to foster: an earnest thoughtfulness. John Harvard was a young nonconforming divine who came to this continent in the early days of the colony in search of freedom for his thought and teaching. He was not much over thirty when he died, leaving half his fortune and his whole library --of considerable size for those...
Still more, the program assures us and assures the rest of the world as well, that the United States is so much in earnest that it is willing to go farther than the others to sacrifice certain advantages it may have, for the sake of the general good. The President's fine words of introduction were not bombast--their sincerity is more than proved by what the United States offers. His speech epitomizes what everyone would like to feel about America, but what we have been recently led to doubt. "We harbor no fears; we have no sordid ends...
...Some Men Who Served" was the subject of his speech, and in discussing this he took as examples men from all walks of life, showing how capitalist, labor leader, politician, and professional man, as well as trained worker had through untiring effort and earnest endeavor served humanity...
After the reading of "The Dragon" on November 3, which gave an opportunity for candidates in each department to gain first hand knowledge of the spirit and tone of the play, the trials for parts in the cast and the work of the other departments began in earnest. The scenery for the play was constructed under the direction of W. H. Kenyon Jr. '21 and painted by D. M. Oenslager '23, from the model of H. W. Little field '24, while the lighting was carried out by F. S. Church '21 and assistants. The orchestra of the Club, which furnished...