Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...club-house of the new Boston Athletic Club, on the Back Bay, is approaching completion as rapidly as the most anxious members can desire. The walls of the building are nearly finished and preparations are being made for putting on the roof...
...continuation of the pleasant weather of the preceding day brought the lacrosse team out on Jarvis Saturday for the second outdoor practice of the season. Though considerable promising material appears, the captain is anxious that lacrosse players should show a more general interest in the practice work. The members of last year's team who are now playing are: Davidson, captain, Griffing, Towle, Drake, Hughes, and Henshaw, '90, and of the substitutes Morton, Wells, Griswold, and Kilvert. The new men are: Thorndike, Naumberg, Reisner, Pulsifer, '90, Hunneman, Grew, Rourke, Huntress, Bancroft, and Newall. It is expected that Harding of last...
...Schliemann has gone to Egypt with Dr. Virchow. He is anxious to discover the grave of Alexander the Great, but the place where it is supposed to be is covered by a mosque. Undaunted by this fact, Dr. Schliemann intends to dig a tunnel, or have the whole building moved, after the American method...
...occasion to remind the sophomore class that there were but two of its members on the editorial board of the CRIMSON. Now we wish to speak a word in the same strain to ninety-one. We have at present only one representative from the freshman class, and we are anxious to have more in due time. Shortly after the April recess we shall take on another freshman editor, provided one is found competent to fill the position. We therefore invite any member or members of the class of ninety-one to contribute to our columns-whether they have...
...Sherman, Prof. G. H. Balmer, Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton, Chauncey M. Depew of Yale, Mayor Abram S. Hewitt of Columbia, and General Charles J. Paine. President Eliot responded eloquently to the toast "Our Alma Mater." Among other things he said that Harvard men were not so anxious for victory as they were to play fairly, and suggested that some other means be selected for competition than athletic sports. He was greeted with the most enthusiastic applause, whether for his sentiments or himself is unknown. Mayor Hewitt responded to the toast "Columbia," and the Rev. Dr. Van Dyke...