Word: studiousness
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...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...
Resolved: - That in the death of Ernest Hill we have lost a liberal, earnest and studious companion. By his genial manners he won warm personal friends who will deeply mourn his loss...
...against giving out the marks is that if a lazy man gets a better mark at the mid-years than he expects he may fall off in his work for the rest of the year. Any such indirect benefit to lazy men is far less than the injury to studious men. We have once before called the attention of instructors to this subject and hope that this appeal will not pass unheeded...