Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...were especially impressed with Mr. Cook's way of teaching. He was evidently anxious to have the oarsmen well grounded, and consequently went into detail, leaving the finishing touches to be put on later...
...necessary to make them more careful in their behavious. Their actions have arisen from thoughtlessness more than than anything else. No such pardonable carelessness, however, can be attributed to the men who hide the reference books. These men-and there are not a few of them-are anxious to take some popular reference book out over night. They therefore adopt the plan of coming to the Library earlier in the day, capturing the book they want and hiding it in some safe place. When the time comes for taking reserved books out, they appear and triumphantly bear away...
...which appears today, Professor Macvane contributes an article entitled "The Three' Years Course." It is in opposition to the proposed change, and is partly a reply to Professor James' article in the January Monthly upholding the new plan. Both sides, both the majority and minority of the faculty, are anxious that Harvard's friends shall understand and discuss the matter thoroughly, and they are taking every means to bring to them this knowledge. They want them to understand the real spirit which underlies the opinions on both sides...
...work of collecting. He has made various excursions in search of mineral specimens, and has often been greatly in need of funds for making purchases of specimens of which there were absolutely no duplicates. The collection contains so many specimens which could not be replaced that Professor Cooke is anxious to have it moved from such a building as the Chemical Laboratory, where accidents are so likely to occur. For this reason the collection is to be moved to the University Museum...
...alumni of any other college. Just now the graduates of nearly every college which is represented by any sufficient number of men, are dining together, and talking over the condition of their respective institutions. They take a real interest in keeping up with educational advances, and each man is anxious to help the governing body of his college in the effort to raise the standard. Harvard graduates do not show the same zeal. They appear to be in a sort of lethargic condition, unable to express themselves except on some occasion of unusual moment. They seem to imagine that...