Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Battery Coach Mitchell is eager for more temperate weather so that his pitchers can get outdoors. He feels that the cagework is inconclusive and he is anxious to see how the hurlers will show up under actual playing conditions. The moundsmen who make the Southern trip are likely to be chosen from the following: Spalding, K. N. Hill, Puffer, Brown, Norris, Johnson, Casto, Nash, and Cordingley. The last-named has been taking things easily on account of his injured wrist, and the exact date when he will be available for active work is still uncertain...
...true that there are courses in which the subject matter can best be learned period by period. In such frequent tests have their value, either as signposts to the goal or as steps up the grade. It is true that there are students anxious to "check-up on themselves" every so often. In such courses tests and even hour examinations are of course at the option of the instructor. For such students optional tests might be advisable...
When Ramsay MacDonald assumed the reins of government for the British people some months ago, the general attitude was one of anxious question. Now that Labor had come into its own, what would it do with its newly appointed power? That this universal question is being reassuringly answered, was demonstrated by Mr. Sidney Wicks, the editor of the Manchester "Guardian" in his talk before the Liberal Club yesterday...
Antonie Buddenbrook. The sister of Thomas. At 17 a "silly goose" by her own confession, later on she "knows life" and is anxious to tell you this. Her chief skill seems to be in making unsuccessful marriages, of which she contracts two. One with Bendix Grun-lich, a fraud with handsome yellow moustaches, a faculty for falling dramatically on his knees at just the correct moment, and a distinct taste for the Buddenbrook money. The second with Herr Permaneder, a really kind-hearted if totally impossible Municher...
...shattering of the tradition of September of June classes is not without its advantages; hitherto students-finishing their college work at Mid-years have been forced to wait until the next September before beginning their professional training. For the man who is anxious to complete his education such a delay is irksome, if it does not actually cause abandonment of his plans over the long spring and summer. Indeed, the popularity of the experiment is indicated by the increase of enrollment in February classes to sixty one. Undoubtedly, the man who graduates in February has a better opportunity to find...