Word: keenest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...this reason every undergraduate should consider the mass meeting this evening his most important engagement. We have been out-cheered and out-sung--and on our own field--by every college which we have played this season. After so late a start, it is only by the keenest interest and co-operation of all, that we can have a cheering section worthy of the name...
...closing he referred to the relation of the United States with Germany, saying that there was no rivalry existing which should lead to bloodshed; but intellectually and scientifically the keenest rivalry should be cultivated. Here also the strife of strong powers tends to the highest development...
...power and resourcefulness outwitted and outgeneralled a Yale team which was well up to the average, but which met a team even cleverer and more determined than themselves when they tried to pull another game out of the fire in the second half. It was a source of the keenest delight to the Harvard stands to see men substituted from time to time, one man here to score the field goal, another there to bolster up the defence, and still another to meet Yale at their own punting game and drive them back from the goal line. This...
...cannot leave this subject without adding one word of the keenest regret. To have given three years of splendid service to Harvard with a fourth well under way as a captain in every sense of the word and then to be deprived of the very thing most desired is a bitter disappointment. No man has deserved more than Captain Burr the pleasure and thrill of leading a team to victory. His has been the spirit of that team from the very first game to the last. It was wise, however, not to let him play as his shoulder...
...greater proportion of the various advantages around us which are persistently slipping by, through a lack of foresight. When the announcement of a course of lectures by some eminent historian or a series of concerts appears early in the College year one looks forward to it with the keenest anticipation; the danger is that the greatest pleasure which will be gained is in this same delightful anticipation, for when the time comes, there is a duty or an obligation of some sort which makes it impossible to attend...