Word: eagerness
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...without delay. France and Germany have long been in the field. France has her School and Germany her Institute; and even America has forestalled us in this race. That new country, notwithstanding the vast and absorbing interests of the present, notwithstanding the boundless hopes of the future, has been eager to claim her part in the heritage. While all the civilized nations of the world, one after another, have established their literary councils in Athens, shall England alone be unrepresented at the centre of Hellenic culture...
Every seat and every available inch of the aisles in the large lecture-room in Boylston Hall was filled with eager listeners yesterday evenings, when Dr. Waldstein delivered his second lecture on Greek...
...quite surprised, however, to see nothing of Cardinal Newman's on the shelves. Think what we may of his opinions, hardly any one will deny that he is unsurpassed as a stylist. For my part, it seems to me that every man eager to be "modern" in the best sense of the word, should know, at the least, what Newman's opinions...
After an unusually long delay the provisional list of mid-year examinations has made its appearance on the bulletin boards in University and Sever. There was the usual rush of freshmen yesterday, eager to see "what the list looked like"; and these freshmen were apparently so much fascinated that they made it utterly impossible for a while, for upper classmen to find out how their examinations were assigned. There was the annual amount of grumbling, audible and subdued, among these who found an examination on the first day and another on the last day; and the usual amount of cheerfulness...
...study of dramatic expression and desire a higher course of training than that afforded by the elementary courses in elocution." This attempt to detract from the value and extent of the work now being accomplished by the present instructor in elocution puts one in mind of the eager and superficial athlete who wishes to run in the New York athletic games, but considers the daily routine work of the team unworthy of his remarkable powers. When your talented correspondent is older and wiser, he will begin to realize that the "study of dramatic expression" consists for the most part...