Word: eager
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...team has not won a game at Princeton for twelve consecutive years is good evidence of Princeton's strength on the home grounds. But the Harvard team today, is made up principally of players, who have had the advantage of playing at Princeton in past years, and who are eager to retaliate for the long list of defeats. If Hicks is in form, and there is every reason to expect that he will be, Harvard should have a decided advantage in the pitching department, as White has not shown himself to be particularly effective. Hicks has never pitched a full...
...hall three times each day realize the ubiquity of clothes solicitors more forcibly perhaps than the rest of the community. On passing through the '87 gate towards the Hall, or even walking quietly down Cambridge street, one is accosted by a small regiment of eager solicitors for clothes. We must discard our old clothes, of course, and if we cannot arrange to save them for the philanthropic societies, we are led to resort to these parties from whom we can expect a slight return. But it is quite impossible to sell the same waistcoat to four different people...
When the Junior Class succeeded in obtaining the Living Room of the Union for its annual dinner, which takes place this evening, much favorable comment was heard on what appeared to be a happy solution of a very considerable problem. The trustees of the Union were eager for it and the committee in charge was equally pleased. It only remained for the class to put a damper on their enthusiasm, which it has carefully done. There should have been twice as many tickets sold as is the case and the time is practically...
...Americans consisting of the wealthy Mr. Grumble, his spinster sister, Maria, his daughter Marjorie, and their maid, Arethusa. Mr. Grumble has brought his daughter to Switzerland to break off her engagement with Philip Hathaway, a young Englishman who has been going through college in America. Grumble is very eager to secure a titled son-in-law and is now on the search...
...eager spirit in immortal yearning...