Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Dartmouth is said to be exceedingly anxious to have half of the base-ball series played on her grounds this year...
...authorities to be used, are the Herald, the Globe, or the Journal. For those who wish to go deeper into the subject, the Nation had best be consulted once a week. This plan I am sure would please everybody, especially the anti-Chapel agitators, and those who are anxious to do away with the present marking system, for in this course there would be no marks given, or no examinations...
...religious services." Why then did he afterwards regret that "upward of eight hundred students at Harvard have asked that they be not required to attend prayers?" We cannot see the distinction between "compelling students to attend religious services" and their being "required to attend prayers," that Dr. McCosh seems anxious to make. Either there is some important distinction, or Princeton's president has been grossly illogical...
...that prompt the movement, not so great a boast after all. The whole matter reaches a point of absurdity when it is known that the Yale sentiment was not after all as unanimous for early prayers as has been represented. We have been informed that quite as many are anxious for late as for early prayers, that the story of Yale's voting "with one voice" for early chapel is only a hoax. And so the proud claim of Yale that her students were superior to those at Harvard, a claim which at the bottom meant nothing more than that...
...with a crutch, and the name "Alexander Alger," who has been in the dormitories soliciting alms, is an imposter. He is anxious to take in all the men and money that he can. A note from the general agent of the Boston Provident Association says that "he has been known for years to the relief-giving societies as an imposter...