Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Longfellow Memorial Fund, and that several well-known authors, among them Julia Ward Howe, Edward Everett Hale and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, have promised to read selections from their works. The entertainment cannot fail to be interesting, and the object is so worthy that we are anxious to impress on all that it is their duty to attend. Even if attendance on the part of some is impossible, it should not prevent them from buying a ticket to forward the cause. Longfellow was so universally beloved, and was so long identified with our college, that it has now become our duty...
Since enthusiasts Priest and West wood began to work up an interest in their hobby they have been joined by a number of athletes who are anxious to learn the game, besides a goodly number of old players who have come over from England and settled in Boston. They are anxious to meet all who would like to help put Association foot-ball on its feet here.- Globe...
...ATTORNEY of twenty year's standing in New York City is anxious to secure important advantages in the way of largely increasing practice which will require the expenditure of $5,000. To a young lawyer who will supply the amount, half interest in the emoluments of all future business will be given. A careful examination of the circumstances of the above is solicited. It is believed to be an unusually favorable opportunity for a young man about entering the legal profession. Address or communicate personally with GEORGE M. HOBBS, Counselor-at-Law, No. 34 School St., Boston, Mass...
...prospects for a nine this year would be good if we had a pitcher who could compete with Stagg. There remain three months to develop such a man. Our article this moring on the candidates says that a number of men are anxious for the position and mean to work for it. This must be done or we shall lose another championship which although not so near our grasp as was the foot-ball, is still within the range of possibility. Harvard does not wish to add another series of defeats to the performances of the last two years...
...takes ten or fifteen minutes to regulate the temperature of the water so as to make it bearable, either the hot water will flow and the cold will not or vice versa. In meantime the bath-room is becoming packed with a crowd of human beings who are naturally anxious to make use of the shower-bath, but find so many men ahead of them that they are forced to wait a long time, in course of which the same old trouble in regulating the temperature of the water is undergone. The gymnasium authorities should look into this matter...