Word: keen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sport teams are back this year, and there would be no one to organize a University or class team, but an entirely new organization can be made among the small groups of men in the companies or battalions. If this plan is responded to with any enthusiasm and a keen rivalry springs up in the regiment, it should be possible to hold field days both this fall and next spring for athletic competitions...
After graduating, Mr. Wendell continued to take a keen interest in athletics, not only as an official at the big track meets but on various athletic committees. In particular, he was chairman of the committees which arranged the international games between Cambridge and Oxford on one side, and Yale and Harvard on the other in 1899, 1901, and 1904, and he was a member of the Olympia committee...
...territory from which the Council recruits its members includes not only Boston and the immediate suburbs, but also all the townships lying within a radius of 25 miles. The rally today is the major event of the year for the scouts, and keen competitions in all the classes is expected. Thirty thousand people will probably witness the demonstrations. All scout activities will be represented in the events...
...further growth and improvement should by any chance be denied or impeded becomes unthinkable. The picture of the Law School as it is awaknes an emotion somewhat akin to that which one feels when he looks upon a great cathedral with one of its spires unfinished. There comes a keen desire to see it completed. So of this temple of legal learning, benefiting all our society as well as the individuals who are trained within it, a realization of the good labor and thought which has already gone into its construction leads to a great desire for more...
...young people are a little too prone to mistake excitement for duty. The outbreak of the war naturally makes people a little excited, but this is a time when every man and boy should have a more than usually keen sense of duty, should not allow excitement or exuberance of patriotism to deter him from performing to the best of his ability the obligations that lie before him; and until the age or the opportunity of rendering real military or other service arrives, the duty of the boy or young man is to train himself to clear thought, to steady...