Word: anxious
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pleasing diversities of Harvard life is the amount of thought which is bestowed upon the student by his anxious admirers of every class. We hear at times the religious wail soon drowned in the cry of horror arising at the news of a "Harvard rush." And as a fitting accompaniment, we hear the low sigh of the maiden aunt at "those horrid Harvard punches." But when revolving time brings us face to face with questions of Harvard finance, the country is inundated with a mass of information concerning the Harvard pocket-book which is more stupendous than truthful...
...From April to July, and from September to December, thousands of college men meet, in friendly rivalry, on lake and river, on base-ball and football fields, and in the various sports of field-day. Anxious parents and learned faculties look on, the while, half joyfully, half sorrowfully; now with the wild enthusiasm, shouting 'well done, boys, for Alma Mater,' now anxiously scanning the nut-brown players, if may be to discover some lurking bodily ill, some bookish imperfection which the annual newspaper squib alleges must be the sad ending of all such folly. Fortunately for the general welfare, however...
...seats in the gallery is freshly varnished. Then such students as seem inclined to be restless during the services are ushered to the deceptive seats, and the exercises begin. As the sermon goes on, it is noticed that the students occupying the previously prepared pews begin to assume an anxious expression. This the officiating clergyman considers due to the force of his rhetoric, and his delivery accordingly waxes more eloquent. When the hymn is announced, it is seen that the tenants of the anxious seats in the front row are too deeply affected to rise. The benediction over, however...
...Boston press, notably the Herald, was filled with highly sensational accounts of the affair; these statements were at once copied over the country under the title of "Ruffianism at Harvard." As a specimen of the incorrect statements that got afloat, I received yesterday a letter from an anxious relative asking about the condition of the man who was "very seriously injured in the rush." Now Yale and Princeton have received the same ill-treatment from the press, but they have not the same grounds for complaint as we, - for the statements which appear in the Boston press are written...
...pleasant day, during the Easter vacation, N-and I started for the classic walls of Harvard, that ancient seat of learning, where, according to anxious parents, "the dear boys" work so hard delving in the rich mines of intellectual ore there found, and taking their recreation only in a "feast of reason and a flow of soul;" but where we had decided, after due reflection, they were, in reality having a very good time, paying small regard to such trivialities as lectures or recitations and indulging in recreations far more substantial...