Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...permanent organization was effected, to be known as the "Harvard Intercollegiate Club." The constitution adopted states the object of the club to be "to bring together its members for mutual entertainment, and especially to lend any assistance possible to newly arrived students from other colleges." There will be an earnest endeavor to make the Graduate Department here and the life of men coming here from other institutions so attractive that a large number of men will be drawn here. Graduate students, students of the University and other men pursuing studies in any department of the University shall be eligible...
...those to whom it is addressed, but of every other man in college, treating as it does of a matter of vital importance in college life. Such matters are not generally discussed in the college press but a little plain, sober talk like this, by a man evidently in earnest, and professedly experienced, is quite timely and appropriate...
...Advocate presents a new number, rather above the average in interest. Under "The Week," Harvard's athletic outlook is discussed. The writer takes a gloomy view of the coming season, and calls upon the college to check the successive defeats of recent years by more earnest and general co-operation. For "men must work individually to induce promising fellows to become candidates for the various teams; men must themselves discuss athletic questions," more thoroughly, so as to let athletic men feel "that they are the representatives of a compact body of men" who are "determined to win." The next topic...
...capaclty and desire of its students for serious work. Harvard methods arein a measure misunderstood, first in so far as our university is liberal and progressive, so far there is a tendency, steadily growing less we hope, to misconstrue its tone and its powers of calling forth earnest work...
Concerning the excellence of the general spirit of work, there seems little doubt. Ninety per cent of those who write on this point vary in their expressions of opinions from "good" to "never have seen a more thoroughly earnest spirit...