Word: keen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Apparently such a course of inaction can be explained in but two ways: either the war has not taught us anything worth adopting, or else we have not been keen enough to profit from its lessons. Is it again a case of "Harvard indifference," or is there a deeper reason than appears on the surface...
Ushers for sections 38-51 as follows: Sect. 38, R. J. Banks, J. B. Attridge, C. Anigofsky; Sect. 39, S. W. Danziger, D. P. Decker, H. R. Keen; Sect. 40, N. G. Khouri, A. L. Jacobs, W. P. Hillbraut; Sect. 41, G. P. Hayes, H. H. Holliday, H. L. Hoffman, C. C. Gwynn; Sect. 42, B. Ginsberg, M. Eiseman, J. J. O'Brien; Sect. 43, T. Menton, O. W. Hutchinson, F. L. Gregg; Sect. 44, P. Menton, W. G. Holland, C. H. McAuley; Sect. 45, N. C. Giddings, M. A. Gray, R. F. Gustin; Sect. 46, E. A. Cronin...
...article shows a keen insight into one of the greatest weaknesses of the college system. The habits of study a boy forms in school determine very largely his habits of study in college and after. A test like the entrance examination eliminates many of the fit and not all of the unfit. The uniformity acquired by such a system makes it easier for the college, no doubt. But what the manager gains by a "system" the managed lose; and their loss is the loss of the community...
...keen-sighted reformers will surely include in their program of elimination coffee and tea, which are deathly poisons, and candy, which deteriorates the nation. One by one will the products of the earth be blacklisted, since evil is evidently the essence of all things; and oh what happiness when men shall be delivered from the universe! What glory then for out pessimists, who alone can bring about reforms! They lead us wisely, for they see clearly that if men be allowed to retain their personal liberty to make use of, or to abstain from, alcohol, nicotine, and other curses from...
Comparision of the time of Lewis and B. W. Boyden '21, who placed 10th Friday at Belmont, indicate how keen the competition has been. Lewis covered the six-mile course in 36 minutes and 6 seconds, while Boyden took 34 minutes and 59 seconds, making an interval of only one minute and seven seconds between the first and 10th runners...