Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Department of State is anxious to obtain the services of young men of high character and ability, and looks to your College, among other educational institutions, for encouragement and assistance in this respect...
...public sale we should more readily concur with the action of the Corporation, but since over 3,000 graduate applications could not be filled for the game two years ago in the Stadium, the hardship will probably fall, not on the public, but upon graduates who are most anxious to see the game. These graduates who are unable to secure seats will, no doubt, appreciate the care which is taken for their safety, and if they do not complain it is not for the undergraduates to protest...
...play, which the Verein has chosen this year is an amusing farce, dealing with a city official anxious of election to the Burgomaster's office, in his efforts to discover and apprehend an alleged French spy. His warrant contains only a very general description of the man, and in his eagerness the Beigeordneter discovers suspicious circumstances connected with three guests at his sister's hotel, and finally has all three arrested and held for examination by a high government official. Amusing love entanglements are provided by two of the guests and a rich old merchant, all in love with...
...Good Government Association of Boston is anxious to get members of the University to do some work in the coming campaign in Boston. The work will require intelligence, judgment and tact, and should be interesting to those interested in political matters; to anyone intending to take an active part in politics after leaving College it should be a good practical experience...
...last time I met him he was anxious to know whether the researches of Bjerknes on the attractions of pulsating bodies might not throw light upon the mysterious force of gravitation; and in the discussion of these researches he showed that he had absorbed to a remarkable degree the knowledge of our time in regard to what was once called the Correlation of Forces, and which is now termed Transformation of Energy. I never left him without a mental stimulus which led me either to differ or reflect. His mind was like an electrical discharge in a tube of rarified...