Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Henry Lee Higginson '55 gave a delightful and interesting talk on "Reminiscences of the Civil War" before an audience that filled the Living Room of the Union last evening. He told of the lives of several of his companions in arms in the Civil War, who were willing and anxious to give their all in the service of their country. Nothing can be more profitable than to study the lives and characters of these men, whose names have been inscribed on the tablet at Soldiers Field as an everlasting monument to their courage and devotion...
...nation tomorrow, the strong men of the college tomorrow will all want to be prize winners. When that consummation is reached, and not until then, will intellectual ambition and life come to its own as the dominant element in a university of free and self-directing students, anxious to prepare themselves for the citizenship of a free and self-directing state...
...welcome member of a company of scholars who almost from chlidhood had been so charged with responsibility for single subjects that the relations of these to man's interests as a whole had been often overlooked. A representative of that wholeness Mr. Norton became. To the anxious debates of the Faculty, through which the modern Harvard has been gradually evolved, he brought the steadying influence of a mind free from provinciality, an acquaintance with the best the world elsewhere has known, a spirit averse to mechanical methods, a loyalty to high ideals, and a disposition ever to make the moral...
...anxious inquiries that always attend the launching of a new enterprise are answered to a certain extent in the case of the new Graduate School of Business Administration by the enrollment figures published on another page. The new department has undergone its first test and the result is auspicious. The initial registration of 35 was fully up to the number anticipated by the organizers of the School, and this number is slightly increasing from day to day. Not only has the size of the school justified the hopes of those interested in its success, but the apportionment of the students...
...hoped before this for a final settlement of the phase of the question now uppermost, but it is believed that a general understanding between all parties concerned is necessary to a satisfactory solution. May we not have long to wait! Everyone is anxious to know where affairs are ultimately to stand; but will agree heartily to the proposed conference, if it is to be a means to a speedy, permanent and more satisfactory...