Word: interest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...speaking for the Boylston prizes next Thursday promises to be unusually interesting. The preliminary contest has reduced the number of speakers, so that the contest will not be wearisomely long, and special care has been taken to avoid the dull and hackneyed selections which have bored listeners in previous years. Much credit is due the instructors who have brought about this change, and have labored to make the contest something more than the dreary affair it has usually been. We wish, now, to urge upon all students the importance of attending it. Prize speaking is a matter of college interest...
...Oberlin Review is principally taken up with two four-column articles on "Conscience in History" and "Coleridge and Modern Thought." We confess that we were unable to finish either of them. A prize essay, however, is promised for next time, and we look forward to this with great interest...
...MORROW, at 3 o'clock, the Freshman Nine are to play the Yale Freshmen on Holmes Field. It is to be hoped that the college will show a lively interest in the game by appearing in large numbers, and will give the home Nine as much encouragement as possible...
...centennial of Phillips Academy, Andover, which is to be celebrated on Wednesday and Thursday of next week, is rendered of interest to the students of Harvard by the fact of the close connection which has existed between the academy and this college. Of late years the number of boys prepared for Harvard at Andover has somewhat fallen off, but the tide has turned, and now an increasing number in every class find their way to this college...
SINCE the summer of 1876 there has been no single-scull race for a championship of two or more American colleges. The interest in boating at Yale and Harvard has been concentrated on the eight-oars, and little or nothing has been said about singles. But now there promises to be a revival of the championship races, and this the H. U. B. C. ought to encourage...