Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...supervision we do not mean interference. Graduates can assist without causing friction. The present plan is then a welcome one. Harvard, owing to peculiar conditions needs organizing more than any other college, and she may well be grateful to those who are making this earnest effort to provide the machinery...
Never has Harvard, or any other college, had a man in whom more confidence could be placed, and who is more thoroughly earnest, fair, and high-minded in all his work, than Capt. Cabot. Yet the New York Sun, in spite of its reputation for clean journalism, has seen fit to trump up scurrilous charges which it can not possibly verify...
...advice as to regular exercise for football men throughout the year can not be taken too seriously. The Editorial on the University Club strikes the right note in urging a general subscription and saying that it is "comparatively easy to convince the graduates that we are enough in earnest to pass resolutions," and that "when something has actually been done we can approach the graduates with better grace...
Resolved, That the Harvard Civil Service Reform Club express its earnest hope for his election...
...lead the united College in singing "Fair Harvard." Have personal invitations sent to each individual student and to many of the most prominent Harvard graduates to attend the meeting, for if Harvard is ever to have a University Club to unite her soul and body, we must have the earnest and active cooperation of every fellow-student to enable us to show our sincerity of purpose and determination to succeed to those who are able to help...