Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I would respectfully suggest to young "Hopeful," that perhaps the upperclassmen are not as anxious for the honor of his acquaintance as he seems to think. But why is he so modest? Why does he not "drop in" on juniors and seniors, as (he implies) they take the liberty of doing on him? No doubt they would try to endure him for a half an hour or so, if only to experience a delightful feeling of relief after he is gone. But another alternative also suggests itself. It would be a great honor to the class...
...think it fit that the authorities make some official statement of the case to the students. A few words addressed to them by President Eliot would surely meet this demand most readily. Everybody is anxious to know about this change, and it is no more than fair that Harvard's great reforms be at least understood and appreciated by those who are most directly concerned...
...yesterday quite as much as any favor which has ever been conferred upon her by a university captain; and the enthusiasm of the spectators dispelled all fears that the college had no interest in the crew. Well, the crew has gone, and there will be a brief week of anxious waiting. Let us hope we shall have two more victories to record, and two more pennants to adorn the walls of the trophy room. The victories must and will come; but if they do not, it will be because the better crew is Yale's or Columbia's; not because...
...publish to day in another column the announcement of the Institute dinner. We are glad to see that while the class of '88 as a body does not seem overly anxious for a dinner, the largest sophomore society should have taken the preliminary steps for such an enjoyable reunion as these events always are. The gentlemen who have been chosen to officiate at the dinner are in every way qualified to do their parts admirably, and to make the dinner a brilliant one in point of wit and music, as well as in other respects. To have the dinner...
...their advantage to see whether they will make Physics part of their system of education. Nearly all our other branches have courses of a similar grade, such as History I, Chemistry I, Political Economy I; and it must be gratifying to the members of the faculty, who are anxious to increase the importance of physics in our curriculum, to see with what promptness their efforts have been met by the elective-choosing student...