Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University with an likely to furnish the University with an extremely powerful brand of opposition. Last year the Toronto team was the only one to score a victory over the University, and from all appearances, it has not lost in speed and effectiveness since then. With the Crimson team eager to avenge last year's defeat, one of the best games of the season is promised...
...make our eager sacrifice...
...officers and men, were civilians, a few more amateur yachtsmen, but the bulk of them were American college undergraduates. "Boys of Yale, Harvard, Princeton-indeed practically every college and university in the land-had dropped their books, left the comfort of their fraternity houses, and abandoned their athletic fields, eager for the great adventure against the Hun". That they at first knew nothing of navigation and naval technique was of less importance than that "their minds were alert, their hearts filled with an intense enthusiasm for the cause, their souls clean, and their bodies ready for the most exhausting tasks...
Herr Kapitan-Lieutnant Helmuth von Muecke, commander of the cruiser Emden during the World War, plans an American lecture tour to acquaint ignorant, eager audiences of the marauding deeds of his vessel. Surprisingly enough, there is an avalanche of protest. An honest raider, perceiving that there is almost as much money in lecturing as in writing Memoirs, proposes to turn an honest penny by presenting to us such interesting, vivid pictures as the blowing up of passenger ships and the sinking of army transports...
...have made up their minds before they enter the classroom that they do not like the course, and are resolved not to do the work required, but to take a chance on "getting by"? It would seem that the difficulty lies not with the department but with the supposedly eager seekers for learning who can not force themselves to work in a course they are obliged to take...