Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...special university or college. By intercollegiate football is meant an institution, a noble and blood-stirring institution, which takes its form in football contests between the colleges of America. It has been a gradual growth from insignificant contests to the great game of today, in which keen and friendly rivals struggle for supremacy. We must, therefore, as must the gentlemen from Princeton, spread out this institution, examine it on all sides and in all lights, find in it all those qualities which are vital, and determine its essential characteristics, whether they be good or bad. And when we have examined...
...more interests a man has, the more satisfaction he gets out of life. A keen, active intellect is obviously the most desirable thing a man can get from his years at College...
Albert Michael Newald '06, prepared for College at the West Division High School, Milwaukee, where he took a keen interest in debating and made the interscholastic debating team. He won oratorical contests in his third and fourth-year publication. He was retained in the first trials for the Princeton debate last year and this year was awarded the Coolidge prize of $100 for having done the best work in all three trials for the Yale debate team. He is the holder of a Harvard College scholarship for the current year...
...extensive traveller and a keen observer, Mr. Baker has contributed to English and American magazines many articles on the economic questions of the day, notably in reference to the labor difficulties involved in the great Chicago strike of 1893 and those of the meat packing industries. He is the author of "The Labor Boss," and "The Reign of Lawlessness...
...said Dr. Van Dyke, is a record of the victory of the seventh sense. Besides the ordinary five senses, and common sense, which should be added to these, there is another, the possession of which distinguishes man from beast--the power to look ahead and comprehend the invisible. This keen perception of the unseen, or, as it sometimes is, merely the power of putting two and two together, has been a characteristic of the most eminent men of history. Without it such leaders as Moses. Washington, and Lincoln, or scientists like Newton and Franklin would have been impotent. Friendship...