Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vassar (Miss Katharine Kay): Class competition has been keen for 29 years. Swimming is compulsory. Hockey, basketball, tennis, baseball, keep the girls busy enough without intercollegiate competition...
...University would have chosen rather to return with the trophy than to see the high standard which it set and alone maintained for such a long time, finally attained and even surpassed by other glee clubs. But after all, it is glory enough to have stimulated such keen and inspiriting competition. If the trophy and the first place are highly prized by the University Glee Club, it now has, in its turn, an additional incentive to try for greater perfection...
...most beautiful children I have ever seen. . . . Although she was but budding into young girlhood, you could visualize the sort of woman she was going to grow to be -strong, keen-minded, intelligent, a woman of quality, fit to mother a prince or a president. I used to call her the wonder girl. Then came the day when they bared her soft, well-rounded arm and jabbed it with the virus point. She didn't want it done. . . . And her par-ents fought against it. ... but the authorities, the tools of the medical autocrats, insisted. So they injected into...
...years past the American educator could say of the classics, as President Coolidge did of the League, that they were a "dead issue". But significantly enough Latin and Greek have refused to accept this dictum. It is not, therefore, without a keen analysis of the trend of education that Viscont Finlay, former Lord Chancellor of England, upon assuming the Presidency of the Classical Association of Scotland, ventured the opinion that the tide of interest had turned in favor of the classics. That this phenonenon is not purely European is indicated by the increased enrolment in classical courses in American universities...
...magnificently troubled legal waters that would lave its moral boundaries in which he would be so expert a pilot if not fisherman. Professor Murray points out that our feet are still on the ground and provides a sobering antidote to the effects of too literal an acceptance of Mr. Keen's personal convictions...