Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...broad-jump S. F. Greeley has performed exceedingly well, but there is a wealth of promising material, and the competition for palces will no doubt be very keen as the season advances. In this event the Freshmen have H. R. Hardwick, C. E. Brickley, H. St.J. Smith, C. H. Tilton, P. M. Rice, and H. W. Rudd. E. P. Allis, M. A. Hofer and S. Stanton should also develop with steady, consistent work...
...mile and two-mile Harvard has a great wealth of material and the competition for places will be a keen one. Captain P. R. Withington '12, should star in the two-mile, although he should he closely pressed by F. W. Copeland '13, a runner who has shown unusual promise in cross-country work and who failed to score in the Yale meet last spring by a fluke, he having stopped running a short distance from the finish line because he thought he had crossed the line. Another very promising man is R. St. B. Boyd '14, the star distance...
...final spurt for the tape. There are no regulations other than that only bona fide editors may compete, and that the Monthly's team must not cut corners nor the Lampoon men lag behind and then claim the race. The struggle for the pole promises to be exceedingly keen, but no ungentlemanly conduct will be tolerated. In order, however, that the final grand procession may not be too bitter, a special finishing lap has been arranged, which will add materially to the success of the afternoon...
...conclusion, the CRIMSON wants to congratulate the Student Council for its keen perception and energetic treatment of a crying need. Such reforms, although not world-moving in their consequences, seem to us to constitute the true province of the Council. To make few changes and these in a quiet way implies a fairly satisfactory state of affairs. We believe that the acceptance of this suggestion by the class of 1915 establishes a precedent which will make for a closer unity among future classes...
...Sedgwick Cooper takes a diametrically opposite view from many men who have lately been setting forth their ideas of colleges and college men. He finds that the average student may fairly be called a student, that he posseses a desire for realism and entire naturalness, that he has a keen sense of humor and radiates a generally breezy atmosphere, that for the most part his life and his nature are free from animosity and bitterness and that "he has acquired the fine art of laughing at himself and with himself...