Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Executive Committee of the H. U. B. C. are anxious that it should be understood that valuables are not to be left in the boat-house while their owners are rowing. They hope that by next year arrangements will be made which will make the boat-house perfectly secure from thieves. But at present they cannot guarantee that articles left there will be safe...
...will find that about nine tenths of the fellows that you meet have limited their ambition for the last few years by the entrance examinations. When those are once passed, they see no reason for further exertion; and they are so anxious to acquaint themselves with the new phase of existence which they erroneously term life, that they find no time for anything else. Their college work is sure to be neglected. Their half-stupid, half-mischievous, wholly careless behavior in the recitation-rooms is sure to exasperate their tutors to the point of numerous warnings...
...anxious about the reputation of our poets. The Yale Courant quotes a few lines from the Oberlin Review, and then says: "Yet even this gem will have to yield the palm to 'A Comparison,' by A. D. F., in the Amherst Student." If A. D. F. can write a few more such morceaux the Harvard poets will have to look after their laurels. This morceau we give in full...
...have a taste for those which will insure them their A. B.'s. I know of one man who has made a specialty of English and Saxon studies, who had elected English 4 for next year. He has taken all the other courses in the English department, and was anxious to take this one, but felt it imprudent to risk his degree on one examination in a course so traditionally hard, and he has therefore been obliged to give it up. His case is not exceptional; others might be mentioned, but one is enough to illustrate the evil working...
COMPLAINTS have come to us concerning the action of the Bursar in regard to the transfer of rooms. The old transfer is a thing of the past, and it has been said that if one man wants to give up a room which another is anxious to get, it is impossible for the thing to be done. He who first drew the room, it is said, must hold it, no matter how many homeless wretches may long to rest their limbs within. We have examined the matter and find that the case is not quite as bad as this...