Word: eagerness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Accordingly the elections to Phi Beta Kappa announced in today's CRIMSON will be received with eager interest and the men who have won this honor by their work will be admired, respected, and congratulated...
...eager to call the attention of the students to the concert this evening by Miss Llewellyn not only for its intrinsic importance but because it is the first of a proposed series of concerts by distinguished artists at popular prices, the continuance of which depends on the support given by the student body. Many artists are willing to come to Harvard for merely nominal fees, by reason of their interest in the musical life of the University, and for these concerts the admission price is to be 25 cents. At this rate I think there should be a large attendance...
Today the Harvard team is invading New Haven for the struggle that is to christen the Yale Bowl. Loyally following the team there is a great exodus of students from Cambridge, enthusiastic and eager for the whistle to blow. So far as experts can ascertain, the elevens balance in proved strength about as nearly as any two football machines could. Needless to say, the situation is tense, and, although we believe that the feeling betwen the two universities has never been better, all who are deeply interested in the outcome cannot help but feel the strain...
...untouched continually two great opportunities! The first is for a departure from a conventionalized form; the second is for the development of a free, pungent, animated flow of comment, criticism and chuckle. Let this flow be turned on, as well as college men could do it if they were eager to try, and the issues of the fortunate periodical which caught it would be exhausted in advance orders for copies...
...Without sincerity there is no great art, but sincerity alone is not quite the whole story. Mr. Butler-Thwing's poems are marked by delicacy of feeling and a certain just refinement of phrase, but they lack directness of inspiration and first-hand freshness of speech. They are earnest, eager, painstaking and -- traditional. The author has not yet quite released himself from his models,--for a guess, Tennyson in poetry and Pater in the prose. Of the poems, "The Death of Penelope" is by far the longest flight; and it is well sustained. The poet's observation of the scenic...