Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...crew to England. Cornell is particularly irritated, as she claims that the two races she won at Saratoga in six-oars entitle her to the "championship," and that Harvard has no right to go until she has defeated her in an eight-oared race. Yale and Columbia are equally anxious to have a race with Harvard, and let the winner of the race go to England as the "champion" college crew. What the "championship" has to do with it is not very clear. If Cornell considers herself the "champion" of American colleges, she is perfectly welcome...
...matter open to some doubt, we think, whether a number of students, authorized by none but themselves, have a right to travel through the country and give public performances under the name of the "Harvard Minstrel Troupe" or any like title. If there are any who are anxious for such professional distinction, and feel that their individual talents justify their organizing companies, well and good; they have a perfect right to do so as private persons, or as a band of Harvard students, though we should think delicacy might prevent the use of the latter title. But they have...
...recording the going of the old class and the coming of the new; again we are reminded of the mutability of college life, its aims, its pleasures, and its end; and again we feel the weight of our responsibility in counselling wisely the "men" who have been intrusted by anxious parents to a foster-mother's care. Though the class of '78 exerted an elevating and manly influence on the college, and were characterized by good scholarship as well as by conviviality, they will be missed more as individuals than as a body. The Nine lose a captain whom...
...rather misfortune, to be at a table each side of which is presided over by a different deity of the dining-hall. I sat meekly down, and looked around for my Henry; but my Henry was nowhere to be seen. A hungry man cannot wait. I was becoming anxious, when suddenly my Henry came rushing from behind the screen...
...race draws near, we are anxious to know something definite about the arrangements that are being made in New London for the convenience of the crew and the spectators...