Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...quite at liberty to publish this letter, - indeed, I hope you will do so, for I am anxious to explain 'my' system to any one who thinks either that it differs materially from that of other instructors or that it is a sort of hocus-pocus...
...paper with all his might, one feels that he cannot spend any time to write his answers with care, for he knows that no allowance will be made for the work left undone, and as marks are the representatives of one's knowledge of a subject, he is anxious of course to obtain as high a mark as possible by leaving no question unanswered...
...slight shudder ran through him; he drew back a little from the doorway, and looked at me with an anxious and inquiring glance. I repeated my question. In reply the youth slowly pronounced the words...
...this University who would make the attempt to win this belt for Harvard, we are sure he would be encouraged by all in college who are interested in athletics. The feeling that it is not "quite the thing" to enter amateur races never influences men who are anxious to compare their strength with that of men other than those they have beaten, and, if possible, to improve their record. Persons desiring information about this belt may address Mr. C. P. Huckins, Y. M. C. A., Boston...
...Post-Office Department are willing and anxious to accommodate the students, who have always been very gentlemanly in all their transactions with this office, by giving them equal mail facilities with townspeople, and if the carrier's way can be made bright, it will afford me great pleasure to institute a fourth delivery of mail in the College Yard at once...