Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nine has not gone into training yet, and it makes some of the students rather anxious for its welfare, although it is a subject of discussion whether a nine, outside of its pitchers and catchers, is benefitted any by winter work. We understand that Corcoran and Derby have been corresponded with about training the men, but as yet no answer has been received from them. There is some talk about fixing up the old ball ground on the campus, by taking off the turf and loam, and filling in with hard gravel on the infield; but, in as much...
...they had not been sent to college to spend a large portion of their time in the " - House," he would probably have said, "Oh, that is a different thing." There are others who say that they do not want any Harvard trade at all, but nevertheless they seem very anxious to obtain it if they can do so without making any return for it. Taken as a whole the advertisers who patronize our papers are the most reliable firms in Boston. Many advertise simply because they wish to support our college enterprises, and not because they expect to gain much...
Great interest was taken in the Ryan-Sullivan prize-fight by the students of Princeton College. The boys are naturally anxious to know who will be president of that institution next year. - [Chicago Tribune...
...readings from Shakspere, by Prof. R. R. Raymond, the first of which was to have been given this evening, but was postponed on account of Prof. Raymond's illness. He is to read "Julius Caesar," "Henry IV," "Much Ado About Nothing" and "The Winter's Tale." We are particularly anxious to hear his personation of Fallstaff, in which, we have been told, he is at his best, and from what we know of Prof. Raymond and the famous fat knight, we can easily imagine it must be irresistibly droll. Then we are to have a lecture on "Household...
...observing and logical "Father" writes to the Nation apropos President Porter's report with its accompanying theories of paternal college government. We commend his points to anxious fathers generally. This is his eminently sensible argument: "If my son can, whereever I send him, do with his evenings in a college building, or who knows where else, what he chooses, and with all the time he spends in his own room or anybody else's what he chooses, in what important particular are his morals safer under the most than under the least paternal of college governments?" This correspondent's postscript...