Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there in the midst of the new House Plan the Vagabond will pass the winter months. And from there he will perhaps be able to impart to his earnest readers a bit of, as it were, inside information on the new building program. That is to say, all this will happen if the Bursar's office does not jack up his rent once more and turn the old fellow out in the teeth of a winter's gale...
...estimable elder of the Vagabond whose residence is most generally reported in the neighborhood of Mount Auburn Street took occasion the other day during the course of his annual homily on the Yale game to deprecate the excellent opportunity afforded earnest scholars by the pre-Christmas lull which is about to set in. Fully remembering the ring of this scoffing laugh, the Vagabond nevertheless clears his throat moderately and points to the lecture offerings...
Recently the Vagabond has heard it noised around quite a bit in the circles that know that there is going to be a Yale game in Cambridge next week end. There is some news; and the Vagabond in his earnest desire to keep his readers posted on really worth while events hastens to pass the glad tidings along to his readers together with a timely...
...Saturday class during autumn is a dismal, sparsely attended affair at best. The Saturday one o'clock that concern undergraduates, to whom theoretically the first interest in the football team belongs, are very few. The half-hour surplus allowed at the start of the afternoon would hardly lead an earnest football follower to the classroom in preference to the pre-game practice. Of course the present October must be concluded with the last quarter of the game a matter for investigation in the Sunday sports section; but posterity is still to be considered, and in its behalf the faculty might...
...University's shaggy John Dewey, pedagog, libertarian, "greatest living U. S. philosopher." Philosopher Dewey celebrated the coming event himself by marching last week, as chairman of a new league for independent political action, to a radio microphone to broadcast his indictment of U. S. politics. His phrases sounded earnest but threadbare. Excerpt...