Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...subject of congratulation that so many men are training for the Mott Haven team and are doing good work. We shall need a strong team if last year's brilliant record is to be maintained. The result of the B. A. A. games will be watched with keen interest, for it will afford the first real chance of the year for estimating the probable strength of the team which will represent Harvard in the intercollegiate games...
...ever gain the pro+++ nence and importance in the undergraduate mind that the physical exhibitions now hold. It is hardly probable that they will ever be so popular with the public, but it is entirely conceivable that among college men themselves the rivalry in these competitions might become as keen and absorbing as that which is now associated with the contests on the track, field and water...
...again have games with both Princeton and Yale. With these two strong opponents to meet we must all have a lively interest in the base ball outlook. All the work of developing a team which will represent Harvard with credit in the struggle will be followed this year with keen appreciation and quickened sympathy. At the meeting called by the 'varsity captain last night of all new candidates for the nine only about thirty-five men presented themselves. It is true there is some very promising material among these men, but that is not the point. It must be that...
...only opportunity afforded to test the comparative merits of the various aspirants. Again this occasion is important for upon its results depends in large measure the selection of disputants to represent Harvard in the joint debate at New Haven, and the rivalry among the candidates is keen. The debate is open to all members of the University, and every one is invited to compete for the prize, which will be an appropriate souvenir of the occasion...
Aside from the personal character which the dispute has unfortunately taken the controversy is interesting as indicative of the keen philisophical spirit prevalent in America. Philosophers as such are apt to be thought of as existing in a state of unprejudiced calm and guided by a reason which hardly would admit of enthusiasm. The following spirited paragraph in Professor Royce's critique, which is said to have been the principal cause of the controversy, suggests, however, that philosophers may become very much interested...