Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...especially in the eyes of our own graduates, gives the lie to all that we have professed in the past, of love for the game of football and loyalty to the athletic interests of Harvard? I mention the graduates because I know that a great many of them are anxious to get an expression of undergraduate sentiment on the matter. If there is a single, faint glimmer of hope for football at Harvard, it lies in an emphatic expression of opinion from a large number of graduates, both old and young. But as long as we who are in college...
...need for improvement in the art of debate. The last contest with Harvard has apparently made defeat do longer endurable, and every effort is being made to provide such training as may prevent its recurrence. In these efforts both faculty and students are united. The students are anxious to remove what they now begin to consider the disgrace of repeated defeats, while the Faculty seek to free Yale from the possible reproach of neglecting an important branch of college education. Their latest move has been a particular request to the corporation, leading to the appointment of a new professor...
...wonder they, and others like them, do not take a warning. Ever since the fine system has been introduced a certain set of men have made it a business to keep books for days and even for weeks after they were due. I have been very anxious to get a certain book due February 1, but the gentleman who has it now is bound to keep it out of circulation. Several offences of a similar nature have been reported to me by other...
...chapel between, together with a kitchen, dining rooms and reading rooms. Those who show a decided desire to lead a better life are given a chance to earn a living by work in the house. The meetings are held Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday evenings, and the superintendent is anxious to have the Harvard delegation take charge of the Tuesday meeting regularly...
Hereafter it is intended to have not only chess evenings but whist evenings as well, as the executive committee are anxious to stimulate interest in both of these most intellectual games, through out the University...