Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Faculty is as anxious as the undergraduates to avoid trouble, the students' opinions must be considered. Important issues affecting their welfare and happiness, whether on athletics, dormitory problems, class segregation, or what you will, must not be fought out over their heads. Taxation without representation will never be tolerated...
While abroad last summer G. Emerson '08, manager of the University track team, conferred with representatives of Oxford and Cambridge, and discussed the situation with a view to effecting a resumption of the contests. On his return to America, he conferred with the Yale track management, who are also anxious to arrange the meet...
...important events are not entered, the very nights on which they occur may be taken by something equally important. We have a wealth of lectures to choose from, and they should not be arranged so that a man must choose between two or more which he is equally anxious to attend, when nothing else in which he is particularly interested is scheduled during a long interval...
...traditions is not due to anything fundamentally opposed to them in the nature of Harvard undergraduates. We must explain it by the fact that a revolt against provincial customs has gone too far, and that in ridiculing many of the seemingly foolish usages of smaller colleges we are over anxious to be free from anything similar. An example of the better sort of tradition is that which some years ago prompted undergraduates to remove their hats when passing through the Newell Gate, out of respect for the man whose name it bears...
...time for such minor considerations it would be interesting to discuss the psychological aspect of undergraduate criticism. Apparently everyone is blaming the next man for lack of confidence in the team, while the only ones to surrender are a few half-hearted graduates who are anxious to gain money and universal odium by the use of their pens. The sooner these "Cassandras" find out that they are talking to their own hurt, the better it will be for them and for every one who has the interest of the Harvard team at heart...