Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Here was certainly a full and varied life, responsive to many personal moods and many tides of public feeling. Lowell drew intellectual stimulus from enormously wide reading in classical and modern literatures. Puritanically earnest by inheritance, he seems also to have inherited a strain of levity which he could not always control, and, through his mother's family, a dash of mysticism sometimes resembling second sight. His physical and mental powers were not always in the happiest mutual adjustment: he became easily the prey of moods and fancies, and knew the alternations from wild gaiety of spirits to black despair...
...Since the last meeting of the Associated Clubs in Pittsburg, the question of the Harvard Endowment Fund has been crystallizing," stated Mr. Burlingham, "and the share of the clubs in this movement is so vital that the matter will receive our very earnest consideration and our heartiest support...
...question of a fitting memorial to the Princeton men who have given their lives in the war, is one which should commend itself to the earnest consideration of all Princetonians, graduates and undergraduates alike....... There are three fundamental qualifications which any memorial must fulfil. It must be a thing in which every undergraduate must have had an opportunity to contribute his thought and means to its realization. Secondly, it must be dignified, symbolic of the memories and deeds it seeks to perpetrate. And lastly, it must be susceptible of use by the undergraduates in their daily life on the campus...
...full consciousness without lingering in any of the intermediate stages. The damage done, he turns over and waits for Morpheus to repair it, but very soon the trembling of the bed and the rattling of the windows as the ensigns double past below drives sleep away again. Mumbling an earnest prayer or so for the future bliss of the disturbers the victim begins to go to sleep once more, whereupon the nocturnal School lines up below his windows and does its calisthenics to the hearty voice of the one in command...
...excelled in athletic sports; was a splendid horseman, an honor graduate of the U. S. Mounted Service School, and was one of the best polo players in the Army. He was particularly noted for his high moral character, for his quiet but earnest religious convictions, for his efficiency in the conscientious performance of every duty. He was a born leader of then--one of the best known and most highly esteemed officers of the Army. Since his death he has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his bravery in action near Chatel-Chehery, October 5 and 6, when...