Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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President Emeritus Eliot will leave Cambridge today for Philadelphia, where he will speak this evening at a meeting of the Contemporary Club on "Adverse Tendencies in University Life." While in Philadelphia he will be the guest of Dr. W.W. Keen. Tomorrow he wll go directly to Charlottesville, Virginia, and on Wednesday will begin a series of three lectures at the University of Virginia on the general subject, "The Struggle between Collectivism and Individualism in a Democracy." On three successive days he will consider this subject from the separate standpoints of Industries, Education and Social Life, and Government. At the University...
...undergraduates of Harvard University wish to express their keen sorrow at the death of Cadet Byrne, and to extend to you and all the members of West Point their deepest sympathy. "Respectfully yours, "G. P. GARDNER, JR. "E. C. BACON. "H. FISH, JR. "S. A. SARGENT...
...University crew begins final training this afternoon for the race with Yale, which will be rowed on the Thames just four weeks from today. It is no use denying that the defeat by Cornell was a keen disappointment to every undergraduate, made especially so by a firm belief that the crew was absolutely unbeatable, but in spite of this set-back, the chances for victory on July 1 are still apparently bright. The University crew seems to be essentially a four-mile combination, lacking the ability to sprint which wins the shorter race, and its strength and staying power...
...strange forms of tongue so affected by some writers. A weak tale is all the worse for being put into queer speech, and a good one is not bettered. It is possible that the two specimens of dialect in the present number are masterpieces, but it would take a keen judgment to detect the fact...
...feel able to decline it, especially as he had completed the required work for his degree. For his place at second base and for the vacancy at third there are a number of good candidates, and the race for these two positions promises to be a keen...