Word: eager
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...trust has not been misplaced. If this sort of organized cheering is not given at the game, and kept up to from start to finish, especially if the game is up hill, the management will have only themselves to blame. The benches will be filled with students ready and eager to cheer, but there will probably be no effective applause at all, if the proper men are not regularly appointed to lead the different sections...
...interest in this pathetic and humorous story of the Kaats-kills, will be introduced for one week only, with Mr. William Wolff as the village vagabond Rip, one of the most striking and realistic characters he has ever undertaken. All who have read Irving's story will be eager to hear the opera. The cast will be the same as for the first production the past winter, including the winsome children, whose singing and acting are novel and pleasing...
...batting of the 'varsity men was much better than last year; the men seemed more anxious for good balls and less eager to have bad balls pitched them. Only two men struck out, Paine made a double and two singles, while Captain Dean had a double, a single and a sacrifice hit to his credit...
...made up altogether less than a year's schooling. The Bible, however, Aesop's Fables, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Weems's Life of Washington, and a history of the United States, for reading; a wooden fire shovel scraped clean and a coal for writing materials, enabled his eager intelligence to make a better start than many a more favored boy achieves in the best schools. And after a somewhat florid period of youth, his style of writing and speaking became extraordinarily simple and impressive. Lincoln's practice as a country lawyer, his repeated terms in the Legislature...
...present case serve as an object lesson, once for all. Nothing will more certainly in the end produce war than to invite European aggressions on American states by abject surrender of our principles. By a combination of indifference on the part of most of our people, a spirit of eager servility toward England in another smaller portion, and a base desire to avoid the slightest financial loss even at the cost of the loss of national honor by yet another portion, we may be led into a course of action which will for the moment avoid trouble by the simple...