Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...publication of The American Nation, -- a monumental work in twenty seven stout octavo volumes, --under the general editorship of Professor Hart, marks the first very serious attempt to apply the principle of the division of labor to a narrative of the annals of the American people. Despite the elaborate scale on which the undertaking was projected, the whole series has been issued from the press within the comparatively short space of less than four years, an unusual achievement for an enterprise of its kind. Upon the general editor has devolved the task of delimiting the scope of the various numbers...
During the past few years, however, interest in the club has dwindled to a serious degree, its membership diminishing from as high as 600 to its present enrollment of less than 250. It is with the hope of reviving the old interest and developing collegiate interest in rowing that the present move is being put on foot...
...Harvard Dramatic Club, open to the best talent of the entire University, presents a new field for the rising actor and dramatist. Its productions, we trust, will be of a more earnest and useful type than has yet been attempted; and will, therefore, appeal widely to the more serious side of the University. We extend our best wishes to the organizers for the success they deserve...
...there was absolutely no hope. The college man, he remarked, can see about as far into a stone wall as any man there is, but he must not be in such a hurry to get rich that he forgets his duties as an honest citizen. He recognizes the serious things in life, however, and in his hands lies the future of our Commonwealth; you are almost always sure, also, that he is going to play the game square because he is in it. The great thing about being honest is that even though unsuccessful in securing office...
...more serious articles on other subjects are first of all a brightly written account of "The Taking of a City...