Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Practice for the Freshman hockey team will begin in earnest as soon as the ice in the Stadium rinks is in good condition. The rinks have been thoroughly flooded and frozen, but as yet the ice has not been firm enough to prevent its softening during...
...interesting to look for a moment into the life of Governor Long as an undergraduate.--before he dreamed of the rewards which were to crown his later efforts. An earnest student whose ability was recognized while still in college, Governor Long in his reminiscences tells of his dreary days in Cambridge. In this essay so gracefully done by Mr. Thayer is an excerpt from Governor Long's writings which is especially intimate and interesting...
...make his books themselves seem real to him; he needs a dash of physical effort and even risk. And there is nothing, at present, except the more strenuous phases of athletics that can supply this want. If the college man's play looks to an outsider like the most earnest and whole-hearted thing that he ever does, it is because this play is at present his best substitute for "experience," and for that kind of "reality" which pain and hard training rub in. I take the development of athletics as a sign that the instincts of American college students...
...after youths are emancipated from the rigid discipline of the school master, they cannot be made to take very seriously any studies which do not have a manifest bearing on their career in life. But if it be true that they cannot be led to work hard in an earnest effort to understand the knowledge slowly wrought out, and the civilization painfully achieved by man upon this planet, then our colleges do not deserve to survive and will certainly...
With the appointment of the staff for the December production of the Dramatic Club the work on the coming fall season has begun in earnest. The business management has started work on the summer advertising campaign, plans for the re-organization of the publicity department are in preparation and the stage management has begun negotiations with a prominent theatrical coach to take charge of the fall play. It is hoped that a worthy successor to Dr. Ordynski, director of the three plays presented this April, may be found...