Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...play centres in Bury St. Edmonds, a small town near London. A young gentleman from the metropolis mingles with the provincial society of the little town. There are two ladies, mother and daughter, whose ideas of social breeding are synonymous with their name, Fantast, and who are extremely eager to take up the latest arrival in fashion from Paris. Two old gentlemen of the town are continually playing practical jokes which would now be regarded as social errors rather than as marks of a cultivated intellect. The Londoner, a French barber, launches into the society in the disguise...
President Lowell, Professor Palmer, and Dr. Fitch will speak to the Class of 1917 in Appleton Chapel this evening. Attendance is, of course, voluntary, but we are sure that every Freshman will be eager to hear the messages which come from these three men who represent so well three types of Harvard scholars, the great executive, the inspiring teacher, and the strong clergyman. Opportunities such as this are the envy of every Harvard man who has got beyond their reach...
...film-flammers are with us again, book-agents, pedlars, calendar contractors and all; and the notorious calendar man has against made a contract with two eager young students. Fortunately one of them has not yet secured his bondsman's signature and may still withdraw; but the other one seems liable to find in store for him the same trouble that previous innocents have had before him. The worst of it is that, after the loss has been sustained, there will be no recovering from the confidence man, for he will have fulfilled his contract to the letter. For three...
...rests with the members of the University to show their appreciation of what graduates and friends have done for them; and they can best do this by making eager use of the tickets which are placed at their disposal...
...though they have done their duty financially, they are not losing interest in the plan. Instead, they are each day becoming more and more eager for the time when the final steps will be taken. Indeed, they are becoming impatient even their conversation frequently turns to the subject. And so we shall watch the canvass of 1917 with lively interest, hoping that its members will subscribe with the prospect of making good use of the building which is if such vital importance...