Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unfortunate situation which exists in the Department of biology as explained by Professor Parker in the present issue turns out to be another argument for limitation of numbers by the "appeal" method. To be sure Professor Parker is anxious that facilities should be increased to accomodate the increasing number of applicants to courses in Biology; but limitation of the total enrollment by a change in the nature of "Harvard education" would conceivably bring fulfillment of his hopes...
...musical clubs their rooms, the Union can not hope to be the kind of centre that its founder conceived. But again there has been partial success: lectures, dinners, and committee meetings testify to that. There remains only the problem of the political and "activity" clubs which are anxious to find some centre. But in such cases, with their eyes always on the problem of increasing the club membership, those in charge have generally applied the so-called "forty per cent rule" which has curtailed the use of the Union by organizations of a political and intellectual nature. The second object...
...remain speak English, play up to the visitors, and give them at least half their money's worth. With such a reputation Paris naturally becomes a lode-stone to New Englanders heavily burdened with consciences, to Westerners fresh from their slavery on the farms, to New Yorke's anxious to be rid of their encumbrance of gold. On to the Grand Guignol, the Folies Bergeres, Monmartre and Zelli's! The Americans make the reputation, the reputation brings the American. And if one didn't "do" Paris, there would be no sense in going nor any tales to bear home...
Regard for the feeling of the dead is, like the belief in relies or the desire to visit the tombs of departed greatness, a survival of primitive hero worship. And everybody is anxious about the ultimate disposal of his own corpse. Yet Diogenes, reports Cicero, ordered his to be thrown out unburied. "To the birds and the beasts!" cried his shocked friends. "Not at all," was the answer, "but-lay a stick beside me so that I can drive them off". "How can you, since you will not feel them?" "Well, if I do not feel them, what will...
...object of these groups is to give an opportunity to students not only to discuss current topics but to discuss them intelligently under the leadership of men qualified to help them. Similar groups last year were most successful. The Phillips Brooks House has declared itself anxious to aid anyone interested in the formation of such groups among the Freshmen. Members of the University Christian Association and the Silver Bay Delegation will be present at the Phillips Brooks House to assist anyone in selecting a group...