Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...there is no eager youth who cares less for what is established and is more radical in his judgments than this man, who, for many fruitful years, has defied the gloomy text about the time that follows the 70th birthday. These latter years have been full of labor, but it has been healthy and happy labor...
That was 48 years ago. That eager will has not relaxed. That calm, clear intelligence is not less insistent in its demands. There is the same impatience with things as they are and the resolve to change them in the interest of things as they ought to be. I am not sure that the octogenarian is not still open to the criticism of middle-aged persons that he "wants to do too many things at once." In any organization to which he belongs you will find him pulling at the tugs with all his might, in the tranquil assurance that...
Company G.--Sergeant J. Fiske, Sergeant E. F. Rowse, Corporal M. Eager, Corporal R. H. Bassett, Corporal J. W. Galligan...
...think have gone to the war, or, going, are treasuring their thoughts for slim posthumous volumes of the now familiar type. If things worth printing are still written in Cambridge, the Advocate editors still fail, after all the scolding they have been given of late, to lay eager hands upon the desirable manuscripts. With the Monthly eliminated, the Advocate ought to be able to get all of the best that Harvard produces. Something drastic must be done: why not begin by raiding the pigeon-holes in No. 15 Hollis Hall...
...bribed the Weather Man long enough, till the CRIMSON hosts can wait no longer to prove their prowess. The champions of each side will meet at the Locker Building at 2.30 to prepare for the gruelling contest. As both septets are in top-notch form and more than eager for the fray, the countless thousands who will attend can be sure of a spectacular clash between the old-time rivals. The battle will be open to the public and the sympathizers with the players of each team will be allowed to express their sympathies actively, by joining in the strife...