Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Many organizations, such as the Cercle Francais, International Polity Club, Deutscher Verein, Dramatic Club, Speakers' Club, Cosmopolitan Club, and many others of a like nature, could center their activities in the Union under the proposed system. The unfortunate effects of the keen competition of these many societies are seen many times. For instance, on April 8, M. Leroux, the editor of the "Paris Matin" and one of the most brilliant men of France today, spoke at the Union. He was in America engaged on a special mission to President Wilson. On the same evening, Mayor Curley spoke in Emerson Hall...
...been found that hockey receives the greatest attention. For many years there have been keen contests between the Canadian colleges in this sport, and their proficiency has been seen by those American universities which have begun in recent years to compete with them. They also have contests in snowshoeing,--long cross-country walks which try the endurance of a man more than any other sport. This is the easiest of the three winter sports to learn, but it requires more hardihood and more endurance than either of the others...
...Contest will be held in Carnegie Hall, New York, on Saturday evening, March 4, at 8.15 o'clock. Two new competitors, Princeton and Penn. State, will enter the contest this year in addition to Harvard, Dartmouth, Columbia and Pennsylvania,--the original competitors. This year's competition will be unusually keen because of the fact that the University Glee Club and that of Dartmouth have each won a leg on the attractive trophy offered by the University Glee Club of New York...
...January number of the Monthly is, despite some falterings, pagan in spirit as well as form. Not only do the faun and Bacchus sport upon the cover, but also there is keen sincerity in the written work. If the contributors are almost always conscious in their pose and if sometimes the strain is over-obvious, this is no fault of theirs: in our world sanity cannot be unconscious...
George Washington was a keen angler and a pamphlet by Dr. George H. Moore "Washington as an Angler," may be seen in the library in special edition extra--illustrated by the insertion of the manuscript inscription of the presentation from the author, many portraits of Washington, and fine autograph letter signed by Washington. Grover Cleveland was also a keen fisherman and wrote a very clever little brochure "A Defense of Fishermen." Only 20 of these were issued and the library's copy was presented by the author with a charming autograph letter. John Qincy Adams, De Witt Clinton, and Daniel...