Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radcliffe girls are less likely to reject their religious tradition entirely, more likely to pray and attend worship services, more outspoken against intermarriage, and more anxious to raise their children in their own faith. And unlike Harvard, Radcliffe girls are slightly more interested in religion than they are in politics...
...Houses met a mixed reaction--far from the nearly unanimous approval they enjoy today. The CRIMSON wondered editorially whether the new social system might not infringe on student individuality, and the undergraduates themselves were not uniformly anxious to commit their College life to the House idea. As the months rolled on, however, one House after another was completed, and the Class of '34 became the first (in history) to spend all three of its upperclass years as members of a House system that quickly gained student respect...
...airlines-Air France, Alitalia, Belgium's Sabena and West Germany's Lufthansa-announced plans to integrate their schedules, maintenance and foreign-sales organizations under the name "Air Union." And in a West German poll, only 37% of the citizens questioned by the Gallup-like "EMNID" Institute were anxious to see Germany remain a sovereign state; the solid majority (52%) favored membership in a European union...
...logical last step in a policy that began some 300 years ago, when Dutch East India Co. colonists settled on the Cape of Good Hope and there planted an almond hedge to keep blacks and whites apart. The recent turmoil all over Africa has made South African whites increasingly anxious to raise a thick hedge that would prove impenetrable to the Union's blacks...
Familiar with eating at both Harvard and Radcliffe, Bevington noted with regret that at Radcliffe, where student waitresses are anxious to clear the tables in a hurry, the girls are less likely to linger over their meals in serious conversation--"education through free-wheeling discussion," he termed it. "One of the most wonderful things in the Harvard House system is mealtime," he stated. "I usually find I stay an hour for lunch, and that's good. The level of discussion in Harvard Houses is apt to be very high...