Word: keen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...both Wheeler and Gornish in competition for the quarterback position. The backfield has been further strengthened by Guernsey, a powerful line-plunger; Knowles, a promising drop and place-kicker; and C. Taylor. With this array of good material the coaches are confident, and the competition is exceedingly hard and keen...
...Ayres '15 will be back to take charge of first base but he will meet with keen competition for the position in Captain H. L. Nash, of the 1916 team. Nash is considered one of the best all-around ball players who ever entered the University...
...infusion of the element of keen competition into undergraduate literary work is promised by the commendable plan of a tri-collegiate prize to be instituted by the literary magazines of Harvard, Yale and Princeton. The CRIMSON has more than once advocated the establishment of a literary prize to be competed for by undergraduates of Harvard and Yale, and has pointed out that the stimulus of competition resulting would do a great deal to raise the standard of literary endeavor in both colleges. The tri-partite competition now planned should stimulate even keener rivalry and call out contributions of distinct merit...
Service in the Associated Press requires usually a newspaper training, a keen, alert mind, and a "nose" for news of the right kind (scandal and opinions are not accepted). There is every chance for the man who is willing to work 24 hours at a stretch if it be necessary as it often is, and who can see news and describe it accurately. Two-thirds of the really serious news work is being done by college graduates. The college man has this distinct advantage, concluded Mr. Martin, over the other man,--his training affords him the address and ability...
...star, perhaps of the first magnitude, has lately appeared in the Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore, whose exquisite art and keen vision of the eternal through the temporal stamp him as a religious genius of rare power. It may be hoped that the appreciation of his poetry in Miss Underhill's new book (The Mystic Way, by Evelyn Underhill) will procure many readers for the cheaper edition of the "Gitanjali...