Word: keen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Athletic Association holds contests and awards prizes to those who excell in every form of athletics. The prizes are numerous and for each there is keen competition. Now the College in the same way offers prizes every year for the best piece of work on a given subject in almost all the fields of academic study, but for these honors the rivalry is all too small. There is a very general impression among undergraduates that leads them to believe that only those men who are doing graduate or research work in a subject are properly fitted...
...punts. He uses his hands well and covers considerable ground on the defence. Storer on the other wing is comparatively new to his position, having been shifted from centre to fill the vacancy made by the injury to Gardiner. He makes up for his lack of experience by a keen nose for the ball and a rare football instinct...
...from injuries and among whom is one of the best drop-kickers in the present-day game. But in spite of this a Crimson victory would not come as a surprise either to the supporters of the University team or to the general public which watches the game with keen interest. The Princeton, Carlisle, and Dartmouth games of the last three Saturdays have showed conclusively that the 1911 Harvard football team is one made up of fighters from the word go; and the Dartmouth game showed beyond a doubt that the University team has been able to "come back" after...
...practical opportunities for university men in the theatre are open on all sides. As managers, they are especially needed, since there is a great opportunity in that field for men with original ideas and a keen understanding of life. Mr. MacKaye spoke especially of the work of Professor Baker of Harvard in spreading a wider appreciation of the opportunities of college men in dramatic work. In speaking of Harvard, he emphasized its great need for a University theatre, which should be the focus of all the dramatic activities of the University and where men could acquire the technique and skill...
...keen interest in political development seems to be at last aroused, if we may judge from the spread of commission government and from the use of the referendum. A broad view of the results gives one clear and encouraging answer as to their meaning, namely, that not since the Civil War have the people voted as thoughtfully as they did last week...