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Word: eagerness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Unfortunately, the greater part of the present Sophomore class have failed to perceive this fact. Taking advantage of the anticipation examinations so liberally offered by the Faculty, they rushed to the examination-room, eager to be freed from all presumably incongenial required work. A day or two of "cramming" had been enough to give them a momentary knowledge of their subjects; this knowledge they poured into their books as freely and as thoughtlessly as they would have poured water into a bowl, and their heads were left, as far as political science went, in a condition very like that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/12/1875 | See Source »

Silent and eager with listening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUINE SIGHE.* | 2/12/1875 | See Source »

...enable boys to forestall the regular work of a professional school in order that they may begin their practice at an early age, but to promote learning by encouraging young graduates to continue their studies. By offering large salaries and the prospect of having students who are intelligent and eager to learn, they hope to attract professors of the highest scholarship, who will be obliged to keep up and give evidence of their learning by publishing from time to time essays on subjects included in their special departments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW UNIVERSITY. | 2/12/1875 | See Source »

...foresees will take place within the next twenty-five years even among the fossilized inhabitants of old Plymouth. He informs us that game is plenty; and a brace of fat partridges hanging in the office, shot that day by a boy, serve to confirm his statement and make us eager for the fray. We soon retire, having arranged for an early start in the morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TRIP TO PLYMOUTH. | 11/20/1874 | See Source »

...place so safe as a good college during the critical passage from boyhood to manhood. The security of the college commonwealth is largely due to its exuberant activity. Its public opinion, though easily led astray, is still high in the main. Its scholarly tastes and habits, its eager friendships and quick hatreds, its keen debates, its frank discussions of character, and of deep political and religious questions, - all are safeguards against sloth, vulgarity, and depravity. Its society, and not less its solitudes, are full of teaching. Shams, conceit, and fictitious distinctions get no mercy. There is nothing but ridicule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE YEARS. | 10/23/1874 | See Source »

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