Word: interest
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THERE is an article under this title in the October number of Scribner's, which contains much that is of interest to those who read college papers, as well as to those who write for them. We give below some of the information contained...
...being ready for use as ever. Such a piece of botch-work as all the so-called repairs on this field have been is not often seen. A meeting at Beacon Park, however, would be much better than no meeting at all, and would serve to keep alive the interest in athletics. Will not the officers of the H. A. A. consider this matter...
HARVARD, 11, Yale, 3, was the joyous news heralded from New Haven, and Harvard rejoiced to have gained a victory in the enemy's country, and repaid with interest the defeat received on the home-grounds. At least thirty-five hundred people were present to behold Yale's easy victory over Harvard, and the blue was everywhere conspicuous before the game...
...every way creditable, both to the instructor and to the speakers themselves. The selection of pieces was good, and they were in all cases well, in some exceptionally well, delivered. This is not the place for dwelling on individual merits; it is enough to say that the interest of the audience did not flag during the entire declamation, and that several times much enthusiasm was shown. The audience was much larger than that of last year, and we certainly cannot complain that people will not come to hear good speaking. The speakers could not have wished for listeners more sympathetic...
...Persian open to either graduates or undergraduates. A university library ought to have books that a scholar will need, whatever line of study he may be pursuing. The works of Abu-1-Fazl and Mirza-Shafi, and the Arabic grammar of Muhammad bin Daud may not be of interest to the man of "general culture," - a phenomenon of which Harvard College, it is gratifying to know, is growing suspicious, - but they will certainly prove useful to the student of Turkish literature, and will be valuable to a scholar who intends travelling in the East...