Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Fascinating freshman (anxious to make an impression)-"Why, you are as full of airs as a music-box!" Young lady (unfascinated)-"That may be, but I do not go with a crank." Freshman cuts down his calling list by one. [Brunonian...
...result of the race, there are of course many conjectures, and many of the twenty-four possible orders are named; but nearly all agree in placing '83 at the head of the list. For second place no such unanimity of opinion is manifested. The sophomores seem ready and anxious to back their crew as against either the freshmen or juniors, while the two latter classes are very wary and cautious in expressing opinion. The crews are evenly matched in weight, and all seem equally determined to make the race a close and exciting one. The following is the order...
...authority over his son, who, with his few Latin verses, deems himself far above the mental horizon of his village. Neither has he ever been subjected to the moral influence of his teachers; he stands entirely alone, proud of his independence, which he interprets as strength, and is anxious to prove by action. Now he is confronted by the double task of learning something at the university and earning some kind of living. With great exertion he succeeds in giving a few private lessons, which perhaps pay for his dinners. For lodgings, fuel, and all the rest his only hope...
...certain prescribed hours selected by themselves, and the casual or infrequent players may have a chance to play a pleasant game without fear of trespassing. Then we would no longer see the stupid sight of acres of courts empty, but forbidden to a large number of men needing and anxious for the exercise and amusement which these courts might afford them...
...Harvard is to Boston, Yale to New Haven, and Johns Hopkins to Baltimore. Although there are many colleges in New York, more or less fully equipped, not one of these can lay claim to the title of a great university. Feeling this need, the friends of higher education are anxious, if possible, to lay the foundations of a future university, of which New York may well be proud...