Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...expect from him when he devotes himself entirely to belles lettres. It is to be regretted, however, that the interesting thesis of the title, "Iphigeneia Martyr," is not more consistently carried, and this, perhaps, mars the balance of an otherwise delightful essay. The quotations are all chosen with a keen appreciation of their value in illustrating the subject. The essay is clearly a labor of love...
...sophomores, and T. N. McCarter, N.J., the juniors. These gentlemen reflected much credit on themselves and their respective classes by their efforts. F. E. Reid, Ohio, was the senior orator. His oration, by custom long established, was of the witty and humorous type. His thrusts were keen and heartily appreciated, especially by the undergraduates, to whom many of the jokes were not so obscure as to the strangers present...
...same time we feel, and desire to express a heartfelt serrow at the loss we have sustained in the early death of one in whom the promise and power of usefulness was so great, and we extend to his family the assurance of our full sympathy in this, their keen affliction...
...hail the news that at last, after so much weary waiting, the students of Harvard University are to be removed ex tenebris and introduced into the light of knowledge with keen delight. In fancy we see the pointed windows of Gore Hall pouring forth a flood of cheerful light over the snowbound wastes leading to Harvard street on one hand and to Sever Hall on the other...
...congratulate the directors of the Union on the way it has been conducted this fall. The last debate was as lively and interesting one as is usually held in a presidential year, and the large number remaining to the close - an unusually late hour for the Union - shows how keen an interest was maintained to the close. The Union under good auspices, is a very useful organization, and we are glad to see live questions under discussion and interest so aroused in debates as at present...