Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...will be so bold as to criticize the lack of interest in studies at Harvard after reading the communication from Mr. Lane which we print in another column? Many earnest individuals not content with monopolizing the air and books of Gore Hall for hours at a time must needs appropriate for their exclusive use the volumes most in demand. As long as they are actually using the books no one can severely censure them except for dullness; but when they attempt to found a private library by stealthy and underhand methods, it is time for all fairminded frequenters...
...Whereas, Professor Warren created in each of his pupils the feeling that only through taking infinite pains and through perpetuate it to posterity, showing in his own earnest toil and gentle teaching the scholar's high faithfulness to Truth Absolute...
...pallid sweetness of the earnest face...
...Keble College, Oxford, was ordained priest in 1884, and in 1897 he became Bishop Suffragan of Stepney. In 1901 he was appointed Bishop of London. Bishop Ingram is a comparatively young man for his position, as he is not yet 50 years old; but he is a remarkably hardworking, earnest and able man, a stern and straightforward speaker and preacher. His work has been largely among the poorer classes in big cities, where he has studied their life and condition very closely...
...debaters are carefully coached by an experienced University debater, who, without destroying the individuality of the speakers, trains them in the methods of investigation, argument, and presentation, that go to make up the Harvard debating system. And there is no better means of inculcating that system than by the earnest work, which accompanies any contest with Yale. We trust, therefore, that the debate tonight will be the first of a long and continued series of such contests between the Harvard and Yale Freshmen...