Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reach directly through private agency all the young men of the country, it is entirely feasible to bring the "Plattsburg idea" directly to the attention of over 1,000,000 college, high school and young business and professional men. A considerable proportion of these men are ready and eager to equip themselves to serve their country if only a practicable plan is presented to them. Such a plan is the summer training camp of the regular army...
...addition to the officers for the spring production appointed last week, the following were named last night: assistant stage managers: Parker Kingsley Ellis '18, of Cambridge; Richard Arnold May '18, of Groton; and Fairfield Eager Raymond '18, of Boston; property manager, Charles Blum, Jr., '18, of New York; costume manager, James Reed Warren '17, of Cambridge; electrician, Lester Goodwin Budlong '17, of Bismarck, N. D.; assistant electrician, Samuel Winthrop Dean '19, of Lexington; ticket manager, Thomas Holden White '17, of Cleveland, O.; advertising manager, Walter Wright Webster '17, of Syracuse, N. Y.; assistant business manager, Russell Thurston...
What strikes me as the chief distinction of this number is the noble absence of the "interesting." That disordered curiosity to which almost every writer today panders is here ignored. The best criterion by which to determine the artistic worth of a narrative is the question, Are you eager to know the end? The best works of art are so inestimably satisfying in each particular as to inhibit curiosity. I give the Monthly the highest praise when I say that I find nothing dependent for its value upon any "interest," either that which seeks the solution of some fictitious plot...
...years gone by it was considered one of the essential privileges of a college education to become intimately acquainted with the men of learning of the time, and the homes of the professors used to be thronged continuously with groups of students eager to discuss questions of all sorts. There existed, at places like Shady Hill, the home of Charles Eliot Norton, a stimulating atmosphere of intellectual intimacy and real friendship, approaching almost the informality of a Greek philosopher's "companions." Of late years, however, there has been a gradual drifting apart of professors and students, until now they hardly...
...time when some forty-seven thousand people are assembled together for the purpose of enjoyment, and when train upon train brings eager throngs from all over the East, it is fitting to consider for a brief moment the calamitous suffering now being endured all over Europe. Those happy thousands who today will pack the Stadium, with thoughts centered solely on the great football battle staged before them, may well afford to think also of the greater, sterner battles being fought elsewhere, where the yard-lines are trenches, and where even victory brings untold suffering...