Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...school with a tinge of Platonism. If poetry nowadays were only compatible with clearness! The verse libre of A. Kline Sp might have changed forms with "Succor," since "Sunday Chapel" is no less prosaic than Harding Scholle '17's less self-conscious effort toward oddity in form. With more earnest expression of sincere feeling this must even be a vain plea addressed to writers who nervously fret to be "different"--in vain, as long as Pegasus, instead of trying to get somewhere, fantastically pirouettes...
However, in order to win this year it will require not only supreme effort on the part of the eleven men in the game, but the earnest, the utmost and the most audible support from every Harvard man in the stands. The team must be shown that you are behind them. Today is an excellent time to show it. H. H. DADMUN, CAPT. N. E. BURBIDGE...
With every member of the football squad reporting, and all in good condition, the University football team started its work in preparation for the Brown game in earnest yesterday afternoon. The weather was cold, and although a scrimmage was possible, the men at first spent a long time in single drill, running through all their plays and perfecting them...
...husband. Her most promising material appears in a sleek, oily gentleman's gentleman. So pleased is she with his novelizing possibilities that she invites herself to tea at his place of service. A bored gentleman, who comes in fun and stays at the lady's feet in earnest, turns out to be the butler's master. The complications arise over this visit to the gentleman's kitchen. Ultimately the fiance proves to be a bounder the butler is turned out and the novelist turns from fiction to romance and the butler's master...
...Messerian presided. Professor Moore told of the history of Armenia and its oppression by the Turks, while conditions in Syria at the present time furnished the subject of Professor Jewett's speech. Mr. Malouf and Mr. Bedrosian espousing the cause of the two countries, gave talks both earnest and sincere on why Armenia and Syria should be helped...