Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number of men who have so far come out to try for the team is discouraging. Harvard has always been well represented in the triangular intercollegiate shoots. Last year the team won the intercollegiate cup, and it would be a shame to allow it to go away without an earnest effort to keep it here another year. It is the duty of all men who have shot on the team to come out and try again. The new men always do better work when they are stirred by their example...
...preparation for the intercollegiate contests with Yale and Princeton, in which success means so much to Harvard. Harvard must win; but to win Harvard must work, hard and steadily. That a great many men will work hard we have no doubt, for there is a great deal of earnest and well directed, though undemonstrative, enthusiasm in debating throughout the University. But there is a larger number of men who may content themselves with wishing Harvard success instead of working for success...
...second meeting of the Christian Association was held last evening in Holden Chapel. After the usual preliminary exercises, G. Gleason '97 spoke upon the text, "What Think Ye of Christ?" His address was an earnest appeal for more practical religious work during college life. All who wished were then cordially invited to talk upon the text, and a number of men responded...
Beginning with the Glee Club trial on Thursday and Friday nights, the Musical Club swill begin their year's work in earnest, and make every endeavor towards turning out successful organizations whether the Faculty permits a Christmas trip or not. There should be an extra inducement for '00 men to try for the 'Varsity Glee Club this fall, inasmuch as the officers have decided that all Freshmen who show some ability at the 'Varsity trial need not be examined again for the Freshman Club. This arrangement will save considerable time for the Glee Club and worry for the candidates...
Tonight in Sanders Theatre a reception will be held for the new members of the University, and we earnestly urge every man in the entering class to go. The value of this meeting to the Freshman is immense. He sees for about the first time his whole class together, and may make acquaintances. He has an opportunity of hearing a few cordial and earnest words of welcome from loyal Harvard men, and he comes away feeling more than before that he is indeed a member of this great University, and with a deeper, truer knowledge of all that such membership...