Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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EVERY YEAR the college admissions office sends brochures to applicants declaring "Almost every member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is both a teacher and a scholar and teaches undergraduates as well as graduate students...Most professors are anxious to work with undergraduates; a freshman may well be taught by a Nobel Prize winner or a world-famous scholar." And likewise every year, a starry-eyed freshman class arrives here expecting the College to live up to this bill--that students work with Faculty members as "friends and fellow-scholars...
...Parker is not worried about the short period together. "They fit together pretty well," he said yesterday. "I;m anxious to see how well they...
Still, an air of anxious, nearly jittery tension at Newell Boathouse yesterday verified that the outcome is still very much in doubt. But a lot of the tension broke during a free-for-all pick-up basketball game on the boathouse landing, played with a trash can mounted on the wall...
...football player for Worcester Tech. Now here was an interesting case," Sampson says as he eases into a story. Apparently, this guy was a superb practice punter, but when it came to games he always shanked his kick. He choked under the pressure of charging linemen anxious to tear his head off. In his sessions with the football player, Sampson would run through each detail of a typical snap and kick, recreating the trauma that the punter would experience during a game. With the aid of Sampson's suggestions under hypnosis, the punter began to visualize a perfectly kicked ball...
Although three of the students who will go to Colombia are also members of Paynter's year-long seminar on the zoography of South American birds, he was anxious to stress that the trip is not part of the seminar...