Word: eager
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale, or Johns Hopkins, attending to that expensive highest instruction which the smaller colleges cannot of themselves supply; all these things must lead a lover of learning to welcome the new foundation as a splendid addition to the educational resources of the country, and may well make any man eager to serve upon its staff...
...interest which are inevitable when there is no clearly defined purpose before the members. We do not mean to say that the Western trip is the main object ahead of the Glee Club; far from it. But such an enjoyable trip is certainly an incentive to more earnest and eager effort. This year, we are credably informed, there is every possibility that the club will make the trip...
...leave the chapel without feeling that beside the occasion for sorrow there was occasion for gratitude that such a character had been allowed to be amongst the community, and to spread abroad its sunny, manly influence. Every seat in Appleton Chapel was filled by members of the University, eager to express by their presence their appreciation of their loss, and their sympathy with those who at that time were performing the sad ceremonies at Fishkill...
...word, to bring the most highly educated youths of the time up to the limits of education. But from this there spring other functions, among which the first is research. In all advanced subjects the teacher is continually attaining the limit of that subject, and is, therefore, eager to reach out a little beyond this attained knowledge. In turn such a teacher is surrounded by eager and enthusiastic men and is certain to attract them into the research that interests...
...thought of by many long before it was introduced at Harvard, yet as it has received its most liberal development in this college, it can justly be called a Harvard institution. Western universities have been struck by Harvard's success and progress under the elective system and have been eager to adopt it as far as their resources would allow. The election of studies in the University of Minnesota is even more liberal than at Yale...