Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of the University are invited to attend. The Club, which up to the present has limited its membership to instructors, graduate students and advanced undergraduates in the department of Classics, is anxious to stimulate interest more generally among undergraduates. All concentrators in Classics and men whose field of concentration includes courses in the Classics are now eligible for membership...
...hoped that a large number of undergraduates will be present, as the alumni are anxious that this custom be kept...
...appropriation of sufficient capital to finance the scheme. The present tentative plans call for an issue of bonds to cover the cost of construction and the devotion of fees and membership dues to the payment of the interest on these bonds. In the meantime, however, the Golf Association is anxious to have all players in the University cooperate by mailing their summer address to the CRIMSON in order that they may receive literature and other information on the subject
...Again, the paper declared that--I quote its own culture word--the Harvard "flapper fans and road house roues" were anxious about the scholastic superiority of the Jews. I have no personal friends and few acquaintances who could aspire to the above complimentary description, but if any such exist they probably do not spend their time figuring out the alarming change in the percentage of Phi Beta Kappa membership...
Finally I must congratulate the contributing "Jewish student"--one who is so anxious for his academic opportunities as to wish to save them by slander, and so careful of his "scholastic standing" (?) as to hide behind the anonymity of the press! A shorter world for the above, whether or not in the Semitic dictionary's the uninspiring one of "cowardiee". The papers have recently been prolific of these statements by Jewish students, all equally irresponsible, anonymous, and untrue. Whatever the admirable qualities of the race, and the pure strain has many, they are being rapidly obliterated in the minds...