Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this time, however, there seems to be every reason for a temporary suspension of the regulation in question. As things stand at present, each extra week which a man intending to leave the hall must stay, gives added inconvenience to the men on the waiting list who are anxious to become regular boarders as soon as possible. When it is remembered that there are over one hundred and fifty men on the waiting list, it will be seen that the number who would be accommodated by the temporary change is by no means small. It is in behalf of these...
...must display more interest if Harvard is to have a winning eleven this year. Captain Cumnock is hampered by a lack of material. Reports come to him of new and promising men in the university who play football but for various reasons have not come out. He is very anxious to meet every man in college who plays the game, and it is hoped that new men will not let anything keep them from becoming candidates for the eleven...
...been hard at work, and if diligence in practice and faithfulness in training count for anything, we may certainly hope to greet our team as victors, after the game on Saturday. One of the disadvantages under which they labored last year, was playing on strange grounds, surrounded by spectators anxious to see them beaten, and this year that disadvantage is happily removed, and this year they will play in the midst of friends, anxious to see them win. The contest this year is a critical point in the existence of lacrosse at Harvard. If we win, the success...
...longer than they otherwise would. If it is the object of the faculty to keep them in Cambridge as long as possible it is difficult to understand their motives. Men who come here from a great distance, do not go home at all during the year and are naturally anxious to leave as soon as possible. Any unnecessal delay is unjust to them. It is particularly irksome to be kept by a course so unimportant comparatively as English C. English D is given a place near the beginning. and there is no reason...
...abroad in case they decide to visit England and row Cambridge. Several New Haven gentlemen have also agreed to contribute a sufficient sum to pay their passages over and back, so that the scheme begins to assume a feasible aspect. The Yale crew themselves are said to be very anxious to take the trip. Were the race rowed the two crews would be made up about as follows...