Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There are reliable and experienced substitutes who will make a keen competition for each position, and there is no reason why the team should not play winning baseball...
...unable to do his academic work and his athletics at the same time, and his courses suffer. Were this the case there would be no athletics. The statement of the four major captains on another page, warning their men of probation and other evils, indicates not only a keen interest in the success of their teams but that they have a proper sense of the situation from the standpoint of the University. They propose that their men shall do their work carefully and in good season and thus avoid any possible trouble. The CRIMSON believes there is more in their...
...interest among graduates in this matter has naturally been keen and widespread. The alumni in every state in the land have had it on their minds during these months and the possible men have been gone over thoroughly. President Eliot has gone on record as favoring a young and vigorous man who can shoulder the continuous and heavy work which the office involves. When President Eliot was inaugurated in 1869 he was only 35 years old and the Corporation has shown its fearlessness of comparative youth recently in appointing a new dean for the Medical School who is 32. Many...
...accepting with reluctance and keen regret the resignation of President Charles W. Eliot, the Overseers of Harvard College make this record of admiration and esteem...
...first concern of an institution of learning is to provide intellectual training. There are ways and ways of bringing this about, of course, but the fundamental way on which Harvard University as well as most of the universities of today was founded, is to provide a wholesome and keen enthusiasm for serious mental effort for the sake of the people who enter its doors. Other activities and aspects of the life have their value, largely in proportion to the moderation with which they are practiced, but it remains for the intellectual efforts and ambitions to be the basis...