Word: eager
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...with Harvard, but each time refused "owing to the general lack of interest in bicycling at New Haven." Now that Yale has won the two-mile bicycle race at the Mott Haven games. the college ought to be more interested in this branch of athletics, and ought to be eager to meet Harvard. Yale can not refuse on the ground of any unsatisfactory conditions in the challenge since every circumstance-"course, distance, number of men, and date"-is left to her choice. In this respect the present challenge is even more favorable to Yale, if possible, than former ones. Last...
...members of this Board knew Professor Bowen as a man of strong convictions and of eager temper, sometimes hasty of word in controversy, but as one who kept an abiding sense of justice. He habitually spoke his inmost thought. He could calmly defend an unpopular cause and he never hesitated to encounter the criticism that attends independent action...
...would be amusing were it not sometimes annoying to see the misconceptions which are rife in regard to Harvard. All sorts of stories find circulation and credence throughout the country, and the public seem eager to catch the first hint of any novelty, real or unreal, and to give it circulation. A case in point is the following, clipped from the Cornell...