Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Final arrangements have been completed for the annual baseball game between the Harvard and Yale chapters of Phi Beta Kappa. The game will be played at New Haven on Monday, June 9. The actual line-up of the Harvard team has not yet been decided, because of the keen competition for certain places, but it is fairly certain that either Captain H. F. Fitton '24 or R. L. Hyatt '24 will be on the mound for the Crimson with F. I. Carpenter '24 behind...
...York Manager, in 1902 a Vice President. In 1908 he became President of the Company and in 1919, after 38 years' service with it, he resigned to accept the Presidency of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Of medium size, stocky, he has a bristly moustache and keen, kindly eyes which shine through his glasses. A year ago last January he sat at his desk on the 26th floor of his Manhattan offices and, talking quietly into a telephone, was distinctly heard in London. A successful demonstration of radiotelephony, it constituted the first transatlantic oral communication ever achieved...
...final poem "Love and the Garlands" he uses, with workmanship nearly perfect, the trochaic pentameter of Browning's "One Word More" in a sestina. Indeed his feeling for rhythm is so keen and so subtile that some of his verses will not read themselves to an ear less delicately trained than his own; and his work is in a way analogous to the music of certain modern composers. Combined with his generous freedom in trisyllabic feet is the liberty that he takes with orthodox forms in substituting pauses for syllables and in docking the first feet of pentameters. To those...
...yards run had been originally looked to as the feature race of the meet, with a keen duel expected between Allen of Harvard, and Gage of Yale. Now Allen is definitely out of the running, and rumor has it that Gage is also suffering from a recurrence of an old knee injury received during the winter season. On Saturday, he was seen on crutches in New Haven, and he has been absent from track practice since. A telegram received last night from Yale, however, declared that he was in running shape, and would be able to compete tomorrow...
...Summary: Harvard Seconds a.b. r. b.h. p.o. a. e. Rice 2b. 3 2 1 1 3 0 Keen s.s. 2 2 1 4 2 0 Field 1b. 4 2 2 8 0 1 J.J. Maher c. 4 1 1 6 3 2 Amsden c.f. 1 0 1 2 1 1 Chase l.f. 1 0 0 2 0 0 Donaldson r.f. 2 0 0 1 0 0 Cotter r.f. 2 0 0 0 0 1 Burton r.f. 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mann 3b. 2 0 0 2 2 0 Nash p. 4 0 1 1 3 0 Total...