Word: keen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...present system of scholarships can therefore be justified only if the men who take high standing in regular college work are the most likely to do good service afterwards. In the large majority of cases, we believe that they are not. The competition among students here is so keen that it excites the participants to more than normal exertion. They not only have to devote themselves so thoroughly to one kind of activity as to make rounded development out of the question, but they so drain themselves of energy that, the four years over, they need to recover from past...
Yesterday morning Rev. Washington Gladden ended the first of his two terms of service as university preacher. He left us to go back to his church and to his pastoral duties, and left in us a keen sense of gratitude for what he has done for us. Since Dr. Gladden's first day with us the large attendance at chapel exercises has kept up undiminished-certainly a fine tribute to his popularity. There is always danger, when a man speaks every day and where the nature of the case rather makes it necessary that he dwell on his own particular...
...probable outcome of the games to be held on Holmes field to-morrow afternoon. The public performances of the different men afford the only means of comparing the merits of the contestants and many surprises may be in store for both teams, but it is with a keen appreciation of the uncertainty of predicting the outcome of the several events that this article is written...
...final authority, or ought to be, in all matters of dispute from the scholars up to the principals. They should have control of granting teachers' certificates and should know what progress is being made in every school under their charge. The superintendent ought finally to be a man of keen judgment and a man of conviction. A lively discussion followed on the questions suggested by these two papers...
Again, it is hard to say which of the German universities excel. To begin with there is none of the keen rivalry between German universities that exists between American colleges. Almost every student obtains his university education by travelling from one to another, and very few indeed do not attend at least two universities. Consequently, the students are not deeply attached to any particular university, and, as the government furnishes the endowments without favoritism, there is no reason why one university should forge ahead of the others. The scope and plan of all is the same, but each is particularly...