Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hart with eager looks...
...after the time expected. The programme was too long for two hours. Much of the pleasure that would have been taken in the boxing and wrestling was lost because they came at the hour of lunch. Many left before they began, and the others who remained seemed impatient and eager for the end. If to-morrow's programme is divided, and only half of it given, the change will be agreeable to spectators...
...Eager for the morrow's fight...
...designed to "teach little children the elements of Latin as a living and flexible tongue, by familiar use in actual narrative and dialogue." Our readers may remember that we have already published an article which showed the unfairness of Mr. Reilley's insinuations against Harvard, and also that, so eager had this gentleman been to detect a mote in Mr. Allen's eye, he had not discovered the beam in his own eye; as, for instance, when he attacks Mr. Allen for using constructions which are sanctioned by the usage of Ovid and Horace. Of course, we do not suppose...
...pronounced, and, no doubt, has been pronounced, an assertion of our mightiness and our contempt for what amuses the ??? of the college world. We refused in the beginning to have anything to do with it, and we have since gazed down from our eminence with placid enjoyment upon the eager struggle for the wreaths which crown the finest orator, the best writer, and the champions in Greek and mathematics. We have never said, in so many words, that we were too big for such amusements; but that is what our actions have said for us. I have no means...