Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Most organizations of any reputation have been, at some time in their history, hard put. The test of hardship comes to all worthy undertakings. If steel, when tried, emerges supple and keen from the flames, it is approved for use; so it is with all else...
Miss Lee's keen and vigorous paper on Tolstoi's "What Shall We Do Then?" is of vital interest. She shows how Tolstoi unerringly exposes the root of the problem of poverty. Prince and pauper are brothers under their skins. "The social problem is the individual problem, and individual reform is the only means of social regeneration...
Ardent support by the undergraduates is admittedly a prime factor in the success of any branch of college athletics, and is a thing to be fostered at all times. One class in the University has shown keen interest in backing athletics. The Freshman eight will accompany the University oarsmen to Annapolis tomorrow to meet the first-year boats of Princeton and the United States Naval Academy. There is but one thing that has made this a possibility, --the spirit of a class which has collected from its members the sum of $550 wherewith to send its crew to the Severn...
General Danford speaks of a combined summer camp in which there may be a "spirit of healthy rivalry in developing esprit, skill, and efficiency," and anticipates keen competition among Harvard, Princeton, and Yale when firing records are being kept...
...British Dominions contributed two outstanding figures in Hughes of Australia, and Borden of Canada. Premier Hughes, by means of his keen appreciation of the German menace in all its manifold phases, helped to sound more loudly everywhere the warning that civilization was in peril. Borden, grimly perservering in the single-minded purpose of winning the war, inspired the Empire with a deeper consecration to war duty. No statesman any where faced and mastered problems of greater complexity, and none held more consistently to the courage adopted in the very first moment of peril or caried through to more comprehensive realization...