Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...following appointments were also made: MacIver Woody '07, as Secretary of the Faculty of Medicine; Carl Wallance Miller, David Arnold Keys, Robert Franklin Field and Elmer Raymond Schaeffer '13, as Assistants in Physics; Arthur Bliss Seymour as Assistant in the Cryptogamic Herbarium; Earnest Henry Wilson as Assistant at the Arnold Arboretum; Leslie George Wright, Ralph Henry Price and James Fairbank Smith as Austin Teaching Fellows in Chemistry; Sumner Crushing Brooks as Research Fellow in Tropical Medicine; John Wilson '00, as Instructor in Modelling; Christian Nusbaum, James Beebee Brmsmade '13, Irvine Clifton Gardner '12, as Instructors in Physics; Philip Quincy Wright...
Five hundred boys of eighteen or nineteen are of more value to our civilization, we may believe, in undertaking earnest work in Harvard than they would be in serving at the battle front. They represent that tradition which will not perish though a hundred army corps perish, and though the superficial structure of our mode of life be ruined beyond reconstruction...
...capable of appreciating the generosity of others can fail to appreciate the generosity of our instructors, and of the Government which donated them. As partial earnest of full payment each cadet will strive to his furthest ability to profit by the skilled and thoughtful training which he is receiving. The full payment may be made in France, as brave officers, leading men in battle for the glorification of the French officers' cause and of our equal cause...
...earnest, though unofficial desire of the War Department that the men who will compose these American ambulance units shall be of the highest class mentally and morally, and it is hoped that the leading colleges will contribute entire units which may be kept together and perhaps be given distinctive insignia. Fourteen hundred men have been asked for at once. All of the larger Eastern colleges save Harvard are already actively co-operating with the undertaking, and it appears that the desired number will be rapidly recruited. There yet remains, however, the possibility of forming a Harvard unit which will...
...such a time it is folly to make use of our resources in any other way save to promote that cause which we have undertaken, as an earnest nation, with our whole hearts. We have no surplus for the spendthrift ways of riches. It is folly to waste in even the least degree that natural fertility with which we are entrusted as warders for less fortunate peoples. And the folly of nations may well be the most evil of sins...