Word: studious
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Whereas, by his manly bearing, kindly disposition, studious search for truth, and his loyalty to the high ideals of the moral life-the qualities of a genuine religious nature, he had enshrined himself in the esteem and affection of his professors and fellow students at Harvard University as well as at the Meadville Theological School...
...achievement which comes to most of you after many years of toil. This is an influential and powerful society which you have joined, and in this society you share in the hopes and in the honor of the other members. We welcome you to this body of studious and devoted men, and also to something more, to a place more bound up with the traditions of learning and science than any other in America. You have come here for an education. It is an interesting question what do you expect this education to do for you? There is an almost...
...death his friends have lost a companion attractive alike for his studious tastes, his grace of manner, and his enthusiastic manhood; and his class and college have lost a loyal supporter...
Professor Peabody spoke of the men that the society most needed, men who were temperate, studious and strong in character, Christian men who would lead the way in religion. He showed the possibilities and opportunities such men would have for doing an immense amount of good in the life of so great a University...
...Academy, entering Harvard in the autumn. Throughout his course at Harvard he took excellent stand, paying especial attention to the classics and to history. At graduation he received honorable mention in Greek and in history, and among the commencement parts was assigned a disquisition. Howe led a thoroughly quiet, studious life at Cambridge and on that account was never prominent in a social way, but he was greatly beloved by his friends, of whom he had many in his class at Exeter and at Harvard...