Word: keen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fill the places of some of the most brilliant individual players who ever wore foot ball suits. The working out of this problem has been a process of the most fascinating interest, and has been followed from day to day by the college with close sympathy and keen appreciation of its difficulties. The results accomplished demonstrate the real nature of the athletic revival which has taken place at Harvard; they show that the best elements of Harvard life are in our athletics. Such work as has been done this year is its own crown. Victory can add something...
...college's interest in all these branches of athletic sport is unusually keen this spring. It is an interest which shows that the college can give to boating and base ball, to track athletics, to cricket and to tennis, a support so loyal as to end in sure success...
...decided acquisition to the staff of the Cosmopolitun Magazine is Mr. Brander Matthews, president of the Nineteenth Century Club, who has taken charge of the department of book reviews. The keen critical taste of Mr. Matthews and his fine judgment in literary matters make his book reviews exceedingly valuable. Mr. Matthews' name, added to that of Edward Everett Hale, in charge of "Social Problems"- Murat Halstead reviewing "Current Events"-and Miss Bisland with her European articles, gives the Cosmopolitan a department staff of exceptional brilliancy...
...will be sure to command attention. "What Whitney says" has so often helped the perplexed captain of a team, or settled the final standing of a doubtful amateur, that what he will have to say in the Weekly will carry weight with it, and will be looked for with keen interest...
...long been dissatisfied with the adaptablity of the old theory to the practical setting of a play, to undertake a thorough investigation of Aristophanes with view to effectually confuting Dorpfeld's conclusions or establishing them without a doubt. It was evident that in an author with as keen a sense of motive and as much dramatic action as Aristophanes sufficient internal evidence would be scattered through his eleven palys to settle the point in dispute. The difficulty was to collect and arrange this matter scientifically. This Professor White has done in his monograph, putting it in the form...