Word: keenest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...decision of the Faculty not to allow the musical clubs to make their Christmas trip will bring the keenest disappointment not only to the members of the musical clubs themselves but to almost the whole undergraduate body. The disappointment is the deeper because no reason for forbidding the trip, which appears to the undergraduates to be of any weight, has been given them...
...hardly possible that the efforts of these papers to be sensational should influence either Harvard or Technology, we believe that we should not allow such a misrepresentation of our sentiment toward Cambridge men to pass uncorrected. Technology men have nothing but the best of feeling for Harvard and the keenest appreciation of the many courtesies we have received from Harvard men. It is our hope that in spite of these efforts to make trouble between us, we may become in the future even better neighbors than we have been in the past...
...Truth is the best of thought and life here. Whatever faults Harvard may have, she is sensitive to the spirit of truth. With patient, unflagging devotion and the keenest enthusiasm the student reaches out for the truth...
While feeling the keenest sympathy for the splendid young life at Harvard and having the firmest belief in the manliness and honor of the great majority of the students, I should nevertheless be lacking in my duty to them and to the Alma Mater were I not to express myself strongly in condemnation of an event which lately took place in Boston, flagrant in its selfishness and utter disregard of the rights of others...
...ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moments? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us; it revives for us without a miracle the Age of Wonder, endowing us with the shoes of swiftness and the cap of darkness, so that...