Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stage unusually advanced for this time of year. The prospects on the whole are bright. There is an abundance of good material to fill up the places of the five members of last year's eight who graduated last June, and the competition for the vacant seats will be keen, a factor which in itself is advantageous...
...team has improved remarkably in the last two years, in view of the limited facilities, and, with such good material and a keen interest shown, Captain Wentworth and Coach Mann should be able to turn out an excellent team...
Major Higginson needs no introduction to Harvard students. In the past his addresses have always been interesting and entertaining. Tomorrow night his subject will allow his charming personality, his keen wit, and his forceful eloquence full play. This talk should be one of the most interesting of the series being given in the Union this year...
...editors of the Harvard Musical Review are to be congratulated on the improved appearance of the February number. The aims of the editors are so high that the lack of umlauts and accents in the French and German phrases so noticeable in their last number, must have been a keen disappointment to them. Evidently the fonts of the printers (to whom the press-work was formerly entrusted) did not contain types necessary to the correct printing of foreign languages. Such a condition could not endure of course, and has been remedied, but the advance which has been made...
...offer a concrete suggestion as to one means to establish this intimate connection. The competition for the various undergraduate publications is keen, and participated in by a large number of men. To transfer some of this interest and activity to the English composition courses, particularly English A, may be effected by an alliance between this academic work and competition for the papers. For example, in English A, the students might be encouraged to submit stories, essays, and editorials bearing on college topics. Then after the instructors have criticized and corrected these contributions, their authors might submit them for publication. Thus...