Word: keen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...splendidly at the door of the restaurant and the whole company were soon seated in noisy confusion about the tables. Some began at one end of the dinner, and some at the other. It was a case of the survival of the fittest and the competition was consequently very keen. After dinner the men played ball in the station with apples and oranges taken from the table without extra charge. Nothing on the whole trip reflects better the spirits of the club than this incident; all in fun and all for fun, was the motto...
...Saxon mind has always shown a particular reverence for the past, and a marked tendency to consider the establishment of an institution good reason for a continuance of its maintenance and it is therefore likely that students of Anglo-Saxon origin will enter into such a study with especially keen zest...
Langley was educated for the church, and lived his whole life as an inferior ecclesiastic. He was extremely poor, extremely proud, and exceedingly wroth at the wickedness of the world. His one work, "Piers the Ploughman" is a keen and daring satire on the state of society and religion in England, full of merciless sarcasm and incisive irony in the dissoluteness of the clergy and the vanity...
...seven o'clock. C. E. Morgan, who was to have spoken for the Republican Club, has declined, and his place will be taken by R, M. Gillespie, L, S. Four of the six speakers have had constant training on the stump this fall, and the debate ought to be keen and lively...
...have never taken in that service or held one of our own. It seems that at least once in a college generation a service should be held, distinctly the work of the students themselves, in commemoration of the men whose names mark the tablets in Memorial Hall, and to keen fresh in our minds and hearts the principle which ruled their lives. It would make the best that is in Harvard's past a more living force in the present...