Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Freshmen who are anxious to row and who are not rowing on dormitory crews report at the University Boat House at 3.30 o'clock...
...made by "Undergraduate" in the CRIMSON that the Med. Fac. is driving a sharp bargain with the Harvard Faculty, seems to me entirely misleading. The Med. Fac., as has been pointed out elsewhere, has long been out of date, and knows it. Its older ex-members are undoubtedly anxious to close it out. Its venerable traditions serve nowadays no better purpose than to get venturesome youths into tight places, and fathers of sons don't want them to stay in force. I have no doubt at all that the older Med. Fac. men have jumped at this chance to send...
...play proper is divided into three acts. An elderly noble, Albert, is in charge of a beautiful ward, Agathe, with whom he is in love. Agathe, however, shows affection not for her guardian, but for Eraste, a young man whom she has met by chance. Anxious to be rid of her guardian's control. Agathe pretends to be mad. She appears first as a musician, then as an old woman, and finally as a soldier. Crispin, valet to Eraste, impersonating a physician, takes charge of Agathe who, in her impersonation of a soldier, has become violent toward Albert. Crispin claims...
...said, saved by cautious people mindful of previous bad times, became too recklessly invested with the return of national prosperity. So inexhaustible seemed the reservoir of American capital that ambitious promoters combined already enormous companies and formed collateral trusts to give room for the investments the public was so anxious to make. Before long, however, the enormous inflation of stocks and bonds without corresponding increase in the real property behind them, was detected by the people. They refused to make further investments. A gradual recall of the foreign capital lent to American firms for investment in securities brought about...
...offset the withdrawal of the financial support heretofore given them by the Committee. The crippling of these teams would be a great pity, for in a University the size of Harvard the four major sports cannot furnish a large enough field for a fair proportion of the men anxious to take part in some form of regularly organized sport. Hockey, lacrosse, and cricket are all fine games in themselves, and have in the past furnished a great deal of good sport and exercise for those taking part in them. There has been in recent years a steady increase...