Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...graduate of the college, will sing, assisted by Mr. Anthony. The library fund of $75,000 for endowment is being raised to secure Mr. Carnegie's offer of $75,000 for a library building. Of the full amount $49,000 has already been raised and the alumnae are making earnest efforts to complete the fund...
...clearly, selecting three cardinal points and working them into a solid argument for its position. The Yale team, instead of seizing on a few cardinal points, made a number of somewhat scattering arguments, no one of which was really driven home. In delivery, the Harvard speakers were more straightforward, earnest and convincing. Their precise line of argument was not met by the Yale men, who, although more mature and finished in their speaking were interior to the Harvard team in intensity and drive...
...Andrew" is the principal player of old men's parts in the same club. "Richard Bame" has been assigned to R. L. Lyman, instructor in public speaking. Miss Jane Sever, who will play "Alison," made a memorable impression two years ago in Brattle Hall in "The Importance of Being Earnest." Miss Emma C. Noyes, "Her Ladyship," and Mrs. Hutchinson, "Dame Benet," were formerly prominent in Radcliffe theatricals. W. E. Sachs 1L., will be remembered for excellent work in recent years, both in the Cambridge Dramatic Club plays and in those of the Deutscher Verein...
...physics, 250 no mathematics, and 140 no philosophy. Another evil attendant upon this system is the election of "snap courses." Dean Briggs in 1900 declared that nearly 30 per cent, of the college took nothing but elementary, work throughout their college curriculum. On the other hand, confronting the earnest student is the danger of early and extreme specialization. Over 20 per cent, of the University begin to specialize at least as early as the end of their Freshman year. These are some of the evils peculiar to the free elective system. They are sufficiently evident to make the most liberally...
...difference between the undergraduate, who is apt to be indifferent to the good his studies may do him, and the mature man, who is actuated solely by a desire of self-improvement. To conclude, the free elective system assumes the evident fallacy that the student's aim is earnest and his judgment nature, and it fails to emphasize the development of character and the broadening of intellect...