Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...several lectures the CRIMSON hopes to be able to arrange each year on various aspects of newspaper and magazine work by prominent journalists. The address tonight the position and influence of our newspapers and magazines and about the opportunities they offer to college men, from one of the most earnest and progressive editors in New York...
...Scotland, is in four large volumes; Billing's Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland is in three volumes and very rear; and the numerous monographs, and the articles in society publications, about single castles are not easy to know or to find. Not a few of the more earnest readers of the book, would, I think, appreciate a small and unobtrusive bibliography, such as would help them to prosecute the subject further...
...foremost in our minds. He has touched every side of life in a straightforward and manly way, adding by his won personality an irresistible charm to the breadth of his absorbing subject. For an organized society he has made a special appeal, and we of Harvard can appreciate his earnest deprecation of its fragmentary nature. We have long appreciated it, as the CRIMSON has already pointed out, and have urged upon our doubting elders the advisability of class dormitories, class undertakings, and University "esprit de corps," as fostered by intercollegiate games...
...sphere of their own; club theatricals, with one possible exception, are of a purposely trivial sort; but the Harvard Dramatic Club, open to the best talent of the entire University, presents a new field for the rising actor and dramatist. Its productions, we trust, will be of a more earnest and useful type than has yet been attempted; and will, therefore, appeal widely to the more serious side of the University. We extend our best wishes to the organizers for the success they deserve...
...Journalism is in its babyhood. It needs new men, new energy, enthusiasm and earnest conviction above all. I saw in one young group of Columbia law students three or four men at least out of a dozen that would make useful newspaper workers. I believe that in devoting their lives to the fights of the people through journalism, these young students could find greater happiness than in selling their energies to corporation fights in the court-room...