Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most conspicuous fault of the University was the propensity for offside play and for holding. Most of the penalties were received by the new men, who were too eager...
...patient with the minor defects to which it or any new scheme is liable on first trial. To Mr. Moore, as its originator and leader, belongs most of the credit. This stride toward greater economy and efficiency in the management of athletics shows that he is eager to relieve them of the old criticism of extravagance. We wish him success in his endeavors toward this end, that, as a result, Harvard's athletic equipment may be bettered and opened still more to the mass of undergraduates...
...Passos is a sketch set in Cairo. It seems oddly old-fashioned, like some story written in the sixties or seventies, for it is overloaded with unnecessary details and the dialogue is bookish. The start is slow; the emotions of Mansford are not so treated as to rouse the eager sympathy which will give the surprise at the end its full value. Such a sketch falls if it is ungenuinely dramatic and this...
This year the University crew lost heavily by graduation, Newton, Metcalf, Strong, Eager and Balch leaving places to be filled. There were, however, a number of "H" men who had rowed in the winning university four against Yale, as well as promising material from the Freshman eight. When practice began in the fall, Pirnie was put in at stroke; Morgan, Trumbull, Stratton filling in places left vacant. Although the crew seemed to be going very well, yet it was unable to overcome a slight handicap in the final fall race and was beaten by the second crew...
...full of determination, anticipation, and other things; and the battle that will be waged will be really royal. Special bulletins at the Union, Hemenway Gymnasium, and various resorts of sports and sportsmen in Cambridge. Boston and vicinity will flash the news of the game, play by play, to the eager thousands who for some reasons or others can't attend the game in person. Anyway, all seats were sold three weeks...