Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Unwise philanthropy, widely speaking, is the chief objective cause of vagrancy. Indiscriminate public relief-houses, where help is given without investigation, so-called religious institutions to which those conforming to certain superficial tests are unjustly admitted, lack of keen and proper supervision, in lodging-houses--all these encourage rather than decrease the number of non-workers...
...fullback; R.A. Derby '05, left tackle; W.T. Harrison '05, fullback; J.M. Montgomery, Jr., '06, right end; B.H. Squires '06, left tackle; C.A. Shea '04, left guard. These men together with the new material, and the other candidates for the team last fall, should make a large squad and cause keen competition for the vacant positions...
...batting order: Harvard. Brown. Greenough, r.f. 2b., Dickenson Stephenson, c. 3b., Hoye Fischel, l.f. c.f., Wells Clarkson, c.f. p., Tift Matthews, s.s. s.s., Jones Carr, 3b. c., Smith Kernan, 2b. l.f., Keen Randall, 1b. 1b., Elrod Coburn, p. r.f., Ostby
...courses should give way to a systematic method of some kind, even at the cost of a partial sacrifice of the elective system. "A Recent Book on Greek Sculpture" is concise, to the point, and in a graceful style. It does what reviews frequently do not do--combines keen criticism with a sense of appreciation. "The Outside Dormitory: Pro and Con" is a mere collection of superficial commonplaces...
...evil of having Harvard class teams constantly represented in the newspapers as University teams. Since these debates have been abolished, however the serious preliminary training for University debaters will be gained in the interclass debates, and the competition for places on the interclass teams should therefore be proportionately more keen...