But he exercised a wholesome influence over the more earnest students of history among the resident graduates.

He was an earnest student and a talented athlete.

Balbo was an earnest student of history, and made history useful for politics.

The earnest student of fish morality will, spiritually speaking, chop off his legs.

He opened his notebook again, looking more like an earnest student than an officer of the law.

And listeners have naturally assumed that she must be an earnest student of historical performance.

Their earnest students follow, leaving out the flip.

Despite D'tan's age, he had always been a serious and earnest student.

Better a personal voice than an earnest student of convention.

Alfred was an earnest student, with a mind thirsty for truth, a characteristic he retained the rest of his life.