Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...debating clubs practice in speaking is combined with the study of political, social and economic questions; the selection of the speakers is admirable; Colonel Higginson is one of the best examples of what a public speaker should be and Mr. White is one of the deepest thinkers and most earnest workers among our public...
...draw up a protest stating that if the Corporation abolishes the scrimmage around the Tree, the Class Day Committee will resign, and that there will be no Class Day whatever for the class of Ninety-seven. In this way alone the Seniors may show that they are in earnest, that the custom which is so lightly disposed of by the Corporation is of vital importance to them. It will arouse the graduates as no other protest could and it will bring the strongest pressure to bear upon the Corporation...
...class really is in earnest in its wish to keep the Tree exercises in their present form it should not weakly allow the Corporation to make final confirmation of the committee's decision without giving public expression to its own opinion. A mass meeting of the class should be held Monday night...
...question between two evils, between the present conditions and a slight curtailment of evening enjoyments. But for what purpose do we come to college? Earnest students will be glad to take courses in the evening if they can get them in no other way. Those who are not earnest students are certainly not worthy of consideration. Harvard men should demand as their right the opportunity now only nominally afforded them, of pursuing unhampered an individual, connected, and consecutive system of work during their four years at college...
...prestige lost by the defeat sustained at the hands of Yale. The defeat which we thus suffered will not materially affect us if we retrieve ourselves by a victory in the coming contest. But should we lose the Princeton debate untold injury would result. Only by hard and earnest work can victory be won. We know that we may assure the men chosen of the entire confidence and hearty support of the University in their efforts to regain Harvard's supremacy in debating...