Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Backed by the National Educational Association the bill was recommended recently in a report by the commission upon the emergency in education. It has the earnest support of Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, who is the chairman of the Senate committee on education...
...been necessary to have two sets of special finals, both of which have had to take place on brief notice, giving the undergraduates wholly insufficient time in which to prepare. The remainder of the student body must face the regular examinations in a frame of mind little suited for earnest study. A large number are planning to enlist during the summer and think little about their college standing. Others who will return find the war an insuperable distraction. It is under such circumstances that men are called upon to keep on the job and complete their year with an honest...
...speak. We owe it to our soldiers that they may go forth not less bravely but with open and determined minds, realizing that it is to battle and not to sport they go. This war is not one of headlines and billheads, it is man against man in deadly earnest. We are not the only great nation involved. Let us, for the moment, set aside our vanity and put our strong shoulders to the wheel of the Common Cause...
...therefore suggest for the earnest consideration of this University a plan of academic training throughout the year, which will not only place Harvard among leaders in educational reform, but which will go far toward a more complete conception of war-time needs. This is not peace and we cannot be satisfied with a normal college life. The true sphere of the university is the provision of academic training, as much as possible of it at all times, but the very maximum at this period in the world's affairs...
...things which must be done in times of war as well as of peace. The University, however, burdened as it is by a loss of many men and a diverted interest, has not failed in these duties. We owe a great debt which can only be paid in the earnest and sincere support of an institution which has served the College and community well, and which now contributes to the national life of our people...