Word: keene
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...other numbers two mark themselves out. In "Atropos" Mr. Shipherd takes us back to the deluge and gives a keen study of self-centered emotion, a picture of the last man clambering up Ararat before the waters cover the universe. The tense tragedy of the final moment is well done. Mr. Simon's "The Blue Coat" tells the story of a poor Russian peasant woman following with high hopes on the trail of the husband who has sought a new home in this country. She discovers he has found a new bride and forgotten the old. It is an elemental...
...training-table has two excellent reasons for its existence. First, it is impossible without it to bring men into the excellent physical condition required by the keen competitions of our present athletic contests; and second, it has great importance in developing the unity of a team and the "esprit" of its individual members...
...Monthly is very fortunate in having among its editors such a keen-eyed traveler as is Arminius. We who read the paper can only hope that he traveled far and wide if he can give us glimpses of other countries as vivid as that of Sicily in the current number. And as Arminius has succeeded in giving us landscape, so V. W. Brooks '08 in his essay "The Daemon of Poetry" has given us what perhaps is more unusual, a suggestion of the visions that are sometimes granted to our prosaic souls and that are the life of poets...
...nave of Westminster Abbey, said Professor Baker, was used during the reign of Elizabeth as a great social promenade, even while church services were being held in another part. Here was another place where Shakespeare's keen observation found room for free play. Close by the side of the church was the Convocation House, in the yard of which St. Paul's choirboys acted their plays. Another theatrical centre was St. John's Gate, where the properties for the court plays were kept, and where the playwrights gathered. Lastly, the Great Exchange, the business centre for all merchants, gave ample...
...improved toward the end, and played with considerable dash and spirit. The batting orders: HARVARD. BROWN. Leonard, 3b. 3b., Hoye Stephenson, 1b. s.s., Jones McCall, 2b. c., Paine Dexter, l.f. p., Tift Pounds, r.f. r.f., Raymond Currier, c. 2b., Dickinson Simons, s.s. 1b., Elrod Giles, c.f. l.f., Keen Greene, p. c.f., Dennie...