Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cried orderly Nicholas Murray Butler: "The world of today . . . is not happy. It is not contented. It is not prosperous. . . . In Seattle some 650 working people, who are under contract to carry on their daily employment [at Publisher William Randolph Hearst's Post-Intelligencer] and who are anxious to do so, are kept in idleness for days by the disorderly and lawless force of a group of disturbers of the peace of whom the city, the county and the State authorities are in such terror that nothing whatever is done by any one of these to restore...
This next CRIMSON, photographic competition will be primarily for men with a certain amount of previous experience, though there is no reason why someone who is anxious to learn photography from the ground up, and who is willing to work, cannot make the board. In fact, CRIMSON competition is the only way open in the University, and on the whole, one of the best ways, to learn the fundamentals of photography...
...appointed hour anxious company officials greeted Miss Marsh at the pier, expressed their regrets, told her there could be no launching, because 1,500 members of the Industrial Union of Marine & Shipbuilding Workers employed at the yard had most embarrassingly struck that morning, refusing either to work or go home before quitting time. They claimed their employers had failed to live up to the wage and working conditions sections of their contract. Back to New London went Miss Marsh...
Experience has allayed all doubts concerning the advantages of a Business School training. Important corporations have been willing, and even anxious, to place the graduates recommended by Dean Donham. These apprentices have since shown their superiority over the untrained business man, and many now occupy high positions in the commercial life of the country. In addition to placing its graduates, the business men showed once again their confidence in the school, when this summer, after a lapse of four years, a special session for business executives was held...
There are other comparisons, in Harvard's history, besides the serious academic ones, which we might make if time permitted. You graduates were all undergraduates--you want to know what we think about the college now. Perhaps you are not so anxious to know how seriously we take our studies, as whether we have a good time. Is this just a mechanical brain factory, or does it prepare us for life, as you know it ought? Look around you. You have heard it said that almost one third of the Senior Class now graduates with honors. But do we look...