Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...College Senior" writing in the New York "Evening Post" concerning the "unwilling and the eager student" points out, and properly, that the man who is really eager to learn may, often is, discouraged by the work in the course which is planned for the man with the schoolboy attitude. "This method," he says, "of treating both sections as though they were unwilling has the great disadvantage of failing to educate either." In this statement there is a large measure of truth, although some of the "eager" probably surmount the difficulty; yet if they do, it is because they started college...
Coach Bingham is eager to have as many men as possible report for the spring handicap meet on Friday. Gold, silver, and bronze medals will be given to first, second, and third place winners respectively, but the special races for the cups presented by graduates, will be postponed until later in the season. Men wishing to compete should sign their names in blue-books posted at the H. A. A., the Freshman dormitories, Leavitt and Peirce's and the Locker Building...
Universities and museums, being generally beggars, cannot generally look the gift horse in the mouth, and are always eager anyway to observe their donors, wishes. But they could often use gifts better, and their gratitude would be deeper and more frequent, if their benefactors would breathe their wishes instead of hammering them into the contract...
...limit the government to the use of airplanes and bombs? Are we to waste the talents of our inventors who are so eager to supply us with muderous chemicals and poisonous gases? In the dull periods of history when no international disagreements are brewing, the war on labor will furnish us with an excellent laboratory in which to test our newest devices for efficient killing. ROBERT WORMSER '22 March...
...Sullivan pointed out that it was not any lack of desire to help that kept the United States out. "Until the countries of Europe have accomplished those three things in order to help themselves nothing can be done by us to help them. We are eager to be of assistance, but each nation must first show that it is ready to help itself", he declared in conclusion...