Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Fisher had a special message for inexperienced men, saying, "Every year the first squad includes men who, previous to spring practice, had played no football. It is particularly difficult to convince those men, unless examples will show them. We are anxious to start the season with the advantage which only an advanced spring practice can give...
Three months of anxious expectation on the part of all followers of University athletics will, in all probability, come to an end tonight when the Athletic Committee meets for a final decision as to a head coach for the 1925 football team. Speculations concerning innumerable possibilities have been widespread since the close of the past season, and have become even more rife since the resignation of Coach Robert T. Fisher on February 5. A definite settlement of the whole affair is fully expected as a result of tonight's conclave...
...composed of both graduate and undergraduate members of the University. E. D. Hutchinson 2G., is chairman, and assisting him are; D. V. Steere 2G., Reuel Olson 2G., M. A. Cheek '26, D. C. Gates '26 H. H. MacCubbin '26, and W. A. Shimer, secretary. The committee is particularly anxious to receive criticisms and comments of this year's lecture course and any suggestions for improvement next year...
Thus, while in the U. S. anxious men and women kept a nerve-straining vigil at Sand Cave where Floyd Collins was buried alive, and a horrified nation clung bravely to hope, crowds of weeping German women and children surrounded the Stein pithead, breaking police cordons in their desperate grief, while a whole nation poured out its sympathy...
...obvious, granting the Corporation's assumption that a "theatre and a permanent school for playwrights would not be wise" ultimately, that the administration acted quite reasonably. It stood opposed on theory to the plans which Professor Baker was anxious to perfect, and therefore it had no valid reason for making a special effort to finance such a development. Holding this opinion, the Corporation was perfectly justified in devoting its energies to the aid of those departments which in its belief not only needed assistance badly but were of major importance to the growth of the University...