Word: keene
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...regards the position of the professional trainer, no readjustment would be necessary. The successful trainer is always a man of judgement and experience, with a keen eye and a knowledge of detail which, if often empirical, is always positive. His power lies in these qualities, and he is able to exact implicit obedience. The proposed scheme of examinations would not--could not, in fact--supplant his watchfulness; but it might aid him by finding out the real cause of what he calls 'staleness...
...editorial on the "Bloody Monday" question in the current number will enlist the majority of undergraduates on its side; it presents the arguments in favor of the rush with keen clearness and force. A "Specimen Lecture--English 8," and "Heart to Heart Talks with Freshmen" are the best of the other prose articles in the number. The full page drawing by Welldon is remarkably well drawn; none of the other drawings are noteworthy...
...With a keen eye for situtation and a good judgment for details, Mr. Mitchell builds up a very well constructed play; but in conception and treatment of character he often fails so notably that his drama loses much of its ethical and aesthetic value. Becky, in particular, whom Thackeray made a perfectly animate literary creation, as far beyond analysis as a living woman, becomes in the play a bundle of catalogued qualities tied together with a cord...
These two verses represent the contrasted conditions of college and of the outside world. College life and college standards of judgment are lenient; those of the world are severe and strict. Nor is the reason for this hard to understand. Men in college, with no keen competition of the world's life to drive them apart and with countless ties of common associations to draw them together, naturally come to regard and to trust one another as friends: individual struggle is the characteristic of the life of the outside world; there is less common sympathy and forbearance there than among...
...Mifflin, b. Carter, 3 Tyng, l.b.w., b. Carter, 6 Moore, b. Luckman. 2 Mather, b. Luckman, 15 Taylor, l.b.w., b. Carter, 5 Paul, c. G. Williams, b. Luckman, 7 Chew, not out, 0 Extras, 3 -- Total, 76 BROCKTON, F. Williams, c. Paul, b. Chew, 1 Grant, b. Hinchman, 5 Keen, c. and b. Hinchman, 0 Grumley, c. Paul, b. Chew, 3 Stringer, b. Mifflin, 6 G. Williams, c. Hinchman, b. Chew, 0 Carter, run out, 2 Luckman, b. Mifflin, 1 Ward, not out, 5 Billings, run out, 1 Dubois, b. Mifflin, 0 Extras, 9 -- Total...