Word: eager
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Will a man play harder if he knows that after a losing game there are friends eager to crowd around and wipe away his tears, or if he knows that, defeated, he will be given the cold shoulder? I know this sounds hard, but success is worth the price. We want, not the spirit that accepts defeat with resignation, but the spirit that will not tolerate...
...organization of charitable and philanthropic work. "Harvard is not likely to bother about the idle fancies of human brotherhood or the dignity of man." Yet it is the Harvard undergraduates who have for years supported the Prospect Union; who, under the watchword of "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," have furnished an eager corps of instructors to hundreds of the artisan class who longed for the education they could in no other way afford the time or money to obtain...
...entire fall, while the football team has attracted all the attention of the College, the members of the Shooting Club have quietly been practicing for today's shoot with Yale and Princeton. Their training can not have the same stimulus from outside that is given to football by the eager interest of the entire College in it. They deserve, therefore, more credit for what they do well. We heartily wish them success in their match today...
...Decoration Day. The exercises of that day are being much more carefully planned this year than ever before. They are sure to be appropriate, and it needs no more to say that they will be full of interest and significance to Harvard men. Graduates and undergraduates alike will be eager to avail themselves of the opportunity which the committee offers to secure seats in advance. Those who trust to chance for finding a place unoccupied in in the theatre are likely to fare but poorly. The seats will early be in very great demand...
...Siddons, who was playing Juliet for both, was appealed to, and this is how she answered: "It is very difficult for me to decide, but I will tell you how they both affect me. In the balcony scene, when Garrick is making love as Romeo, he is so eager and ardent that I am afraid every moment that he will leap and jump up to me. When I act with Barrie he is so fascinating that I am afraid every moment that I will jump down from the balcony...