Word: keener
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...greatest amount of discussion in this connection among graduates and others interested in the selection. The conservatism which should characterize this column prevents the writer from commenting on these men here and indicating personal views and preferences. It is hoped, however, that a stimulus can be given to a keener appreciation of the situation by a plain statement of facts. We find it a most interesting topic for speculation...
...measuring their ability with others. When we have twice the number of men playing class football as at present it will not only provide sport of the right sort for just so many more men, but it will increase the value of their exercise as the competition becomes keener. This, moreover, will have an ultimate effect on the University squads...
...part of the Senior than is usually manifested. In operation, it is not expected that it will require more than a small sacrifice of time. The committee is somewhat smaller than formerly on the theory that a careful selection of the men will be rewarded by a keener responsibility to carry it through successfully...
...another month that benignant presence will have been gone from us for twenty-five years--a quarter of a century in which there have been many shifts and fluctuations in current taste in literature, and in which the competition of authors seeking popular favor has been keener than ever before. Many have had their little day of sunshine; few have outlived a single short summer; but all this while there has been no change in the hold of Longfellow on the hearts of men, and today bears witness to the truth of Lowell's prophecy that the next age should...
...most obvious uses, he said, which higher education affords man, are solace during idle hours and a keener perception of opportunities in business...