Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some readers may feel that the CRIMSON is a meany for withholding this letter, which was dated October 31. On the other hand, it effectively demonstrates that prudence is virtue and science is bunk, and that two sophomores have keen interest in our several grid classics...
Naturally one of his main concerns is with the House in particular, but he also shows a keen interest in student affairs in general. "I am not a producing scholar," Taylor once observed, and there is much truth in this statement. For time that might otherwise have been alloted to research has been spent instead in behalf of students. Taylor served six "valuable" years on the administrative board, which handles many areas of undergraduate life, and has been on the athletic committee since its inception in 1951. In addition, WHRB has just appointed him one of its initial trustees...
...sink into one's "cellular consciousness" in order to control the action of body tissues. With his bosomy mistress Olga at his side, he enters a "semi-cataleptic" trance and "goes away" into his leg, clearing up the gangrene as the amazed Olga watches. Egmont is soon keen "to forget all knowledge, live my organic life, flourish like a vegetable." But when Egmont is well on his way to becoming an amoeba, Olga gets panicky, has him insulin-and electro-shocked back to everyday life. Egmont rather sheepishly admits that maybe man had better develop the mind...
...tomatoes were 5? a pound). And when he got his first job pulling ice, loading wagons and firing furnaces in the Belle Springs Creamery (working his way up to night foreman), his friends made their headquarters there, drawn to Ike by qualities they still describe as "horse sense" and "keen sense of humor." In 1910, suddenly conscious of his own aimlessness, Ike heeded a friend's advice and took an examination for Annapolis and West Point. (The Navy lost a future admiral because he was eight months too old for the Naval Academy.) In June 1911 he reported...
Argentinian Mike Reynal has returned to his place at outside centre after a year's leave of absence, where he will play beside Pete Palmer of last spring's team. Competition for the other three-quarter spot is keen between sophomores Bob Strassler and Jay Greenman, both new to rugby, and Tad White, also back from a leave of absence...