Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ball was nearing the crimson goal and Harvard grew anxious. Heffelfinger tried to go through the center, but Mackie stopped him. Then Winter bucked through for a gain and McCormick made a dash between Hartwell and Wallis...
...least, very unbecoming. It now appears, also, that the club has taken no steps to bring on a match with Yale this fall. The Harvard club was defeated at the last match, and its position therefore demands that it be the challenger this fall. If the club is really anxious for an opportunity to retrieve itself in the eyes of the college, it will lose no time in sending a challenge to the Yale Gun Club, and will begin daily practice shoots immediately...
...such. John's friends have, for the past few months, been greatly alarmed at the number of times he has been seen under the influence of liquor. They have noticed that he has been far less vigorous and in much poorer health than he has been for years. Being anxious that he shall continue to grace the college with his genial presence for many years to come, it has become necessary to take this step of urgently appealing to all the students not to give John any liquor whatsoever. This seems a strange appeal to make to the students...
...Times has asked us to "explain the value of this dual league in track and field athletics and its probable effect on the intercollegiate games." The value in track and fiald athletics is much the same as in other branches of sport. Harvard and Yale are anxious to meet as rivals in every sport and prove the superiority. At the intercollegiate meetings, where the winning or the losing of the cup turns most frequently upon the points won by some small college, no chance is given to prove the real superiority between the two colleges. Take the last intercollegiate games...
...very glad that Columbia has seen fit to admit the Yale freshmen into the race with Harvard. Harvard has been anxious to row Yale a freshman race for some time, but her unwritten agreements with Columbia have seemed to prevent it. We hope that the success of the new plan will ensure the annual arrangement of freshman races between Harvard and Yale...