Word: eager
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Jewish religion. So that when so simple men as the shepherds heard the angels' song they needed no interpretation of the message. Confucius, Zoroaster and Socrates had all prophesied of some one to come who should relieve humanity. All men, even in our own day, are seekers, eager and earnest in their quest for something larger, nobler, and diviner than the present affords. It is the spirit which draws 3000 men to this place, which is the moving spring of this life...
...does not every college man who looks ahead to wife and children realize that it is possible for men to be willing, - yes, eager to forego for themselves in order that others may enjoy...
...twelve years since Dr. Peabody has had active connection with the college, the tradition of all honor and love toward him still abides with us. It was certainly a remarkable twenty years that he passed here as college preacher, years so full of lofty unselfishness and profound thought, of eager assistance and inspiring suggestion to the students that reverence for Dr. Peabody came to be a vital part of all Harvard thought...
...general table system which was introduced two years ago. This system was adopted on trial by a majority vote of only one in the Board of Directors; and that it has proved unsatisfactory is shown by the fact that the men at the general tables are always eager to sit at a club table and that many decline to enter the hall unless they can sit at a club table...
...witnessed the transition of government from kings to peoples, public opinion was now all powerful, and public opinion is not to be moved so much by physical and moral as by intellectual forces. It was a time of eager argumentative disputes...