Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Some of us being anxious to see Harvard College, or the group of buildings going generally under that name at Cambridge, and others of us to get to Longfellow's house and garden, we chartered a carriage and took Harvard first, pulling up at the handsome pile called the Harvard Memorial Hall, in the beautiful and lofty transept of which a multitude of tablets commemorate the names of the gallant graduates of Harvard who fell twenty years ago in the civil war. In the same building is a magnificent dining hall, decorated with portraits and busts of eminent Americans...
...their ability to settle questions which in former years the crew considered themselves competent to decide. We are of the opinion that your graduate committee having full power, the joint committee is competent to bring the whole matter to a satisfactory conclusion under any contingency. We are anxious to meet your crew the coming summer, but decline to accept your challenge until all the preliminaries for the race shall have been decided by our joint committee. Your reply will necessarily terminate this correspondence. If you agree to our views, the graduate committees with full powers can take charge...
...Cornell Era argues excitedly over the recent introduction of the honor system at that college. "It has been known for some time," it cries, "that certain professors were very anxious to introduce into the university a system of honors resembling closely that in vogue at Harvard. In the first place it is an attempt to transplant into Cornell soil a plant which has flourished passably well among the cultured shades of Harvard. Perhaps it might be more exact to say that it is an attempt to ingraft upon the Cornell stock an offshoot of the Harvard system...
...University of Pennsylvania is anxious to arrange a boat race with Harvard...
...wonder that the Yale News is exceedingly anxious to stop all further discussion of the disagreeable subject of Yaleism in foot-ball; the methods, however, adopted to obtain the desired forgetfulness would be ludicrous if they were not so despicable. In an editorial of Tuesday last the News seeks to turn the discussion on another subject by making against the managers of our crew the serious charge that they have acted discourteously or unfairly in not replying promptly to Yale's challenge. Not only are the charges ungentlemanly and wholly without foundation, but they are made in the News' most...