Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number 1. Nelson is the only new candidate who has presented himself but several men have signified their intention to train after the midyears are over. Captain DeNormandie urges all men at all interested in the team to go into training as soon as possible, and is especially anxious that new men should come forward as candidates...
...here, and the announcement that he intends to give a series of lectures on different cities in Italy will be welcome news to all who have heard him lecture before on subjects connected with foreign travel. Every year Professor Cooke gives some public lectures and he is always especially anxious to have the members of the freshman class come to hear him, as his remarks often bear upon the work done in the class room. The first lecture of the series will be on the city of Venice, and will be delivered next Thursday evening in Boylston Hall. The only...
...tank will be accessible to the crew at certain hours, while the nine will have the use of the cage, and, in all probability, the New Haven skating rink, which will be of immense advantage during the winter months. The freshmen, since their football defeat, have been very anxious to get revenge on Harvard, and the manner in which they are going to work looks as if they might...
...seldom that in any question concerning the internal affairs of the college the sentiment of the undergraduates and instructors is unanimous, but the benefits to be derived from lighting the library are so manifest as to make all those who are in the habit of using the library anxious to see electric lights introduced. Two or three years ago a strong effort was made to induce the corporation to to light the library during the evening, but as the use of electricity would have been very expensive, and the use of gas out of the question from the risk...
...Yale is very anxious to row a race with an English crew. There was not a man in our boat last June after our race with Harvard who would not have gladly remained in training if a race could have been secured. Yale will begin official negotiations very shortly with Cambridge relative to arranging a race if it is possible to do so. One or two things, however, may prove rather considerable obstacles. In the first place, any idea of a race between Yale and Cambridge in April, as has been suggested by the newspapers, is out of the question...