Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...defence, coverpoint seems to be the only position in doubt. W. H. Claflin, Jr., '15, E. A. Graustein '13, P. H. Smart '14, B. B. Williams '15, and D. J. P. Wingate '14 will make the competition for this position extremely keen...
...Lincoln Steffens will deliver a lecture on "Socialism versus Radicalism" in Emerson D this evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Steffens' broad education at universities here and in Europe, coupled with long experience as a journalist and writer, have given him a keen insight into contemporary social and political problems. His advanced stand on such questions, and his connections with labor, have won for him the title of "anarchist." Mr. Steffens is not, however, as extreme as the title would imply. He was largely instrumental in obtaining the confession of the McNamara brothers a year ago, and lectured here...
...more serious purpose; to qualify yourself and others for a life work. Get into contact with men and find something in common with them. Avoid mediocrity in all things like poison and strive always to break records, not records of others but your own. Keep your minds bright, sharp, keen, and serviceable tools, and remember that the habit of handling masses of facts and seeing them as they are is the greatest part of life...
...Fitch emphasized the fact than the attention of the University is focused upon the Freshman. Those who are entering the University must preserve their youth and keen minds not only during their stay here but even in later life...
...assume that we hold property, and every other power that we possess, to promote moral ends; that it is not enough to comply with the low standard that the fashion of the day demands, but that unless we do our duty to the utmost we are unprofitable servants. A keen French observer remarked that he had heard of America as the land of the almighty dollar, but on visiting it he found that wealth was valued here for reasons different from those that prevailed in Europe. There it was regarded as cash to be spent for pleasure. Here...