Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should like to say as a member of the executive committee that the officers of the boat club are deeply sensible how much the crew is handicapped, in its efforts towards success, by the heavy debt under which the club is at present laboring, and that they are extremely anxious to reduce expenses to as low a point as is consistent with the welfare of the crew and that therefore any criticisms of the expenditures of the boat club, which are directed toward this end, are most gladly welcomed...
...Dartmouth is not anxious for an oratorical association. It says: "Oratorical contests are often opposed by faculties as tending to create false standards of public speaking. But, setting aside all objections that may be urged against existing associations, the idea of forming a new one seems a little absurd. It would be much better to have inter-collegiate spelling contests, or, if spelling is too easy, let chemical formulae be substituted for words. While we are about it, we might also institute inter-collegiate mathematical examinations, or perhaps some contest to see which college gives the best instruction in Greek...
Last evening, Miss Ashely gave a very enjoyable social to the class of '88. The juveniles are reported to have danced and even played cards. Of course, the chaperons kept the youthful flow of spirits within proper bounds. One anxious mother sent the family dog with her son for protection. One of the freshmen picked up sufficient courage to accompany a young lady to the social, but when it came time to go home he excused himself on account of the storm. -[Chronicle...
...laughter at the queer jumble. Doubtless the average senior Latin or Greek oration bears pretty much such a resemblance to the oration of classic days as Prof. Hubner's (Leipsig) English does to Macaulay. Meeting an American friend, in reply to an inquiry as to his health, Prof, Hubner, anxious to air his familiarity with English, upon his knowledge and mastery of which he prided himself not a little, exclaimed, 'I am much in misery-I have a big pain in my trunk.' He meant to say, 'I am quite sick, having a severe pain in my chest.' Probably...
...this issue our readers will find a statement of the present attitude of the Committee of Conference. That the gentlemen of the committee have the best interests of the students at heart, and are anxious to bring about closer relations between them and the faculty, we feel certain. But they seem to us to be needlessly timorous. Other colleges are already in advance of us in this matter of student co-operation, and that too when there is hardly a college in this country where such co-operation would have so little prejudice and disaffection to encounter as here...