Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of students detected in "cribbing" at the last examinations was unusually large. During all last year only two cases occurred, and the guilty ones received prompt suspension. What punishment was visited upon this year's anxious "riders" has not yet been made known, but it is not likely the increase in number has lightened the punishment. - Cornell...
...sano, should be Harvard's second motto. With its splendid Hemenway gymnasium, fitted out with everything in the way of athletic apparatus that human ingenuity has devised, its ball fields and running tracks, it is no wonder that Harvard, drawing from its sixteen hundred students, all of whom are anxious to represent their college in athletic contests, should be able to put forward a base-ball nine that wins every game it plays, a football team that is only beaten by Yale, and a boat crew that leaves even Yale in its wake...
...Nation is anxious for a University of New York, that will deserve the name...
...rehearsal; and an odor of smoke fought with the atmosphere for supremacy - and won. About thirty miles this side of Portland a student resident, Mr. F. H. Whipple, '88, introduced to the first car-load the Mayor of that city, who gave encouraging reports of what might be expected. Anxious inquiries as to the quality of the water, an important matter in Maine, brought forth a reassuring answer, and the Mayor left with a cordial invitation to both societies to call at his house in Portland...
George, the celebrated English runner, is anxious to meet Myers again, and it is likely that they will soon race...