Word: keen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...preparatory school student is only human, and when he finds older men, men, it may be, who have been famous on the gridiron, engaged in keen competition for his services, he may be pardoned for developing an exalted idea of his importance. When a coach of a small college team is quoted as bragging that the eleven cost him so many thousand dollars, the previous season, what is the inference? A definite, combined effort to end this situation on the part of seats of learning which value their own self-respect and bear at the same time some regard...
Freshman crew work started this fall with the interdormitory races. These proved successful in bringing out a great deal of material, and arousing interest. When the regular work began on February 16, 120 men reported, making a record in the history of the University. Hard work and keen competition have made this year's eight seemingly one of the best ever developed here. M. Wiggin, the regular stroke, has been elected captain, and he has behind him an exceptionally heavy and strong crew, and one which rows beautifully...
...Keen Competition With West...
Advance "dope" is of little value in a short baseball series where the teams are anywhere near evenly matched. This is especially true where the rivalry is as keen and the tension as high as in a Harvard-Yale contest. In the present season both nines have been handicapped somewhat in their development; Harvard, by the loss of Captain Ayres through sickness, Yale, by the ineligibility of Hanes. Moreover, the University was forced to swap horses in the middle of the stream, so to speak, through Dr. Sexton's resignation as coach...
...keen competition for the goal position is expected as there are three men of University calibre who will compete. They are S. A. Robinson '16, J. W. Feeney '17 and G. M. Hollister '18, freshman goal...