Word: keen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...peculiarly fitted him to take such a part. For six years he played on the Yale 'varsity eleven, of which he was twice captain, and he was in every Harvard and Princeton match during that time. When he was finally forced to give up play, he still retained a keen interest in football, and was a warm supporter of the game before it was as firmly established in popularity as it is today. His chief field of action, however, has always been at Yale. As her leading coach, the invention of many of her most effective plays must be credited...
Wrenn and Adee are warm friends and men of much the same calibre, quick, of keen judgment, light in weight. Adee has the advantage of having already played in a Harvard game, and tackles rather more strongly than Wrenn, but the latter's judgment is, on the whole, the better...
...which she is Shakspere's best type. In this she differed from Viola and Rosalind. She was extremely witty, the wittiest character, except perhaps Benedict, in English literature. Portia was a very 'nice' personage. She had a very sweet and skillful tongue, and a pleasant and graceful, though keen, wit. But she was what we should now call a little strong minded. She was the first dim prevision of the new woman. It must have been hard for her to give up the right hand of government when Bassanio returned from the trial. The character of Imogen is difficult...
None the less we believe that the members of the team have made every effort for victory, and that this is to be recognized even when the disappointment over the result of their efforts is most keen and bitter. Such honest endeavor is worthy of high honor...
Such, in briefest outline, are the main services of President Eliot to the University. No man, unless he had the highest abilities, could have done such work. With keen sagacity, he has foreseen the action of educational forces; with unfailing resources of quick intelligence, adroit action, and steady will he has met these forces and maintained the position of Harvard in all circumstances. He is a man of action; always thoroughly acquainted with the matter in hand from its broadest aspects to its minutest details, always clear as to his own intention, always calm, swift and unhesitating in its realization...