Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...independence of prejudice and envy have made him one of the most eminent historical thinkers the world has ever produced. Thucydides's greatest work, "The Peloponnesian War," is remarkably free from the multitude of trivial details and stories usually inserted by his contemporaries, presenting, on the contrary, the serious attempt of an historical thinker to present the trends and currents marked by the events of the time...
...varying fortunes of Memorial Hall have been the subject of so much discussion, facetious as well as serious, that it is hardly necessary to emphasize the importance of the vote which will be taken tonight. Judging by statistics the new plan is an improvement upon anything which has been tried up to the present time, and even if the members are not entirely satisfied with the results of the plan, nothing but serious faults would justify a change after so short a trial. Minor causes of criticism will be removed in time, and no one should vote for a change...
...buildings, at least for permanent ones, as was well shown last year when a slight fire starting in the residence threatened to spread over the entire structure. Had it not been for the prompt action of the observatory fire department, which had had practice drills for several years, serious damage might have resulted...
...Class Lives" are used as a basis for compiling the statistics of members of the class while in college. These statistics are an important part of the first class report which a now being compiled; but the small number of "Lives" received up to this time makes serious work impossible...
...graduate students, and a few upperclassmen, and that he is half a mile away from the centre of undergraduate life on Mt. Auburn street, about which he has never heard. To get into the geographical location in which he belongs, takes him a year. This alone is a serious handicap to the Westerner who enters without friends; moreover it is a handicap that might easily be avoided...