Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seem to realize that they are to turn out a team that must meet the Yale freshmen. Because the error is a common one, it is not the less blamable It is for the freshmen to decide at once whether they will begin to make an earnest effort to win the coming contest by hard practice each day, or whether they will indulge in a halfhour of playfulness, such as they enjoyed yesterday afternoon, and let the shame of defeat show them the result of shilly-shallying and half-hearted practice. It they have regard for their own future prospects...
...evident from yesterday's game that the eleven must begin earnest work at once. The fumbling of the backs was demoralizing to the rushers, and the wretched work of the rush line made good playing impossible for the backs. All the rushers were miserably weak in holding, and while it is some excuse for them that they could not use their arms as formerly, it was not enough to justify the wretched playing of yesterday. None of the rushers broke through on the half-backs at all; right end and tackle were especially bad in this respect. No one ever...
...means of spasmodic and local impulses. Sincere and honest private citizens can do their country more good by elevating the tone of parties than by manifesting a vacillating independence in politics. Mr. Storey practically admits this, but, accepting parties as necessary, he slurs over somewhat the real value of earnest work within partisan bodies...
...team is by no means dubious. On the other hand, the opposing freshman eleven at Yale this year is unusually strong, and it has had the advantage of beginning practice a week earlier. These advantages can be overcome only by the hardest kind of training, and it is this earnest work which the freshman class and the whole college is expecting from Captain Brooks...
...them that there has been a distinct increase in the interest of the students in the religious services of the college. There was certainly a noticeable increase in the number of men present at prayers last week and few services have been held in Appleton Chapel more impressive and earnest than the opening Sunday services a week ago. Dr. Peabody and his associates have reason for renewed conviction as to the wisdom of our religious system. With the experience of two years behind us, we know that the bright outlook for the coming winter will not be falsified. Mr. Locke...