Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...good knowledge of the game, having played for some time on the Quicksteps of Baltimore. The Messrs. Riggs have served on the same team and McKenney has played with the Lawrenceville's, so with four experienced men to begin with, the outlook is decidedly promising. The management is anxious to arrange as many games as possible. Already dates have been arranged with the Lawrencevilles and the Maple Leaves of Philadelphia, and efforts are being made to arrange a game with the Rutgers' varsity...
...Boston Athletic Club is very anxious to get up an eight to row Harvard. Much interest is being taken in the project by the members of the club, and if little difficulty is met with in selecting the men for the crew, and if Harvard will agree to row a race, the club will buy a shell. There are several college oarsmen in the Athletic Club and an eight selected from their number could hardly fail to be a strong one after suitable training...
...this addition to its athletic fields, Harvard will have less ground available for the use of its athletes in proportion to the number of students than almost any other college in New England. The college authorities have been cognizant of this difficulty for some time, and they are as anxious to see the matter carried through to a successful issue as are the students...
...that this action was taken for the sake of preventing persons from venturing on the ice before it was strong enough to bear. But now that the ice is four or six inches thick, this excuse for forbidding skating is no longer plausible. If the city of Cambridge is anxious to prevent accidents at the Pond, it seems to us it has adopted a very poor means for carrying out its plan. Now, there is a double incentive for daring boys to skate on the Pond in defiance of the policeman who patrols the shore; and the chance...
When a man is preparing for the examinations, he is naturally anxious to get some idea of the sort of papers the various instructors are accustomed to set before their classes, so that he may be able to turn his labors to the best account. This has been recognized by the authorities at the library to a certain extent, and recent papers have been collected and bound for use in the reading room; but for some reason the assortment is by no means as complete as it should be. The mid-year papers have not been kept for the past...