Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recognize the apparent dearth of news at New Haven, but feel assured that the near approach of the annual foot-ball quarrel will relieve the anxious editors. So far as our advice to the freshman eleven is concerned, any comment from Yale will be gladly received, as the wearers of the blue have ever shown themselves so highly gentlemanly, so thoroughly manly in their support of their athletic teams that Yalensian support has become a proverbial expression of victory...
...authentic list of all the members of the various college societies. In obtaining these names, however, much necessary trouble is experienced, as the secretaries of the different associations are very backward in sending them in. This should be done as soon as possible, as the editors are very anxious to have the Index ready for publication in a few days...
...concert given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, at four o'clock yesterday afternoon, was listened to by a large, but cold audience. Long before the time set for the beginning of the concert, a large number of undergraduates, and also outsiders, blocked the entrance to Sanders Theatre anxious to gain admittance. At 3.30 the hall was already filled by graduates and their lady friends; the latter constituted almost a half of the entire audience, so that when finally the undergraduates rushed into the theatre, they had to be contented with standing room...
...Germans of the middle and lower classes; and the contemplation of their various traits would have furnished profitable amusement for an entire day. Most of them realized the exhaustive nature of the display and were already fortifying the inner man with sandwiches, cheese, bits of sausage, and bottled beer. Anxious fathers and mothers were wedging a slow and painful progress through the crowd, towing some half dozen shock-headed, wide-eyed offspring of graded ages and heights. Surely little Fritz and Heinrich and Annchen and Kaetchie must see the gay colors and the prancing horses, albeit the pressure...
...birthday came around, not only the alumni of the university and the inhabitants of Heidelberg, but scholars of every name and tongue, from all over Christendom, would flock together to take part in the glorious celebration. For weeks beforehand the whole city was in a bustle of anxious preparation. There was erected on the banks of the Neckar an enormous Jubilee Building, in which 7,000 people could be seated. Every house was decorated with bunting and evergreen, and from every house-top floated the twin yellow and red of the Duchy of Baden. From all points of the compass...