Word: interest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...That convention of colleges which was to have been held on March 27 at Springfield fell through entirely, Williams being the only college represented. Wesleyan, who organized the convention, was not represented because her delegates were detained by examinations. The other colleges profess lack of funds and want of interest, hoping, however, for a congress next year. We shall see what will result...
...severe and too sweeping in stating your proposition? I shall await with interest your demonstration...
...thus shortly an entire host of grievances with which the Association may well feel itself inflicted. The contests that have just been ended in the Gymnasium have been unusually successful. The entries were more numerous than last year; the treasury is in a flourishing condition. Altogether, the interest shown in these sports had promised an increase of work and training for the field-meeting, and it can hardly be doubted that, had such a meeting taken place this year, it would have proved the best ever held at Harvard. But, unfortunately, it cannot be; Jarvis is in a too tender...
...Mark's, Southborough; and the Critic, Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven. The first of these is well-managed and well-written, which is more than can be said for a great many of our college exchanges. The Vindex would do better if it confined itself to matters of interest to the school, instead of discussing the "Mode of Electing a Pope" and kindred subjects; and if it did not try to be very funny. As a rival of the Burlington Hawkeye, the Vindex is not a success; as a school paper, it is - not a failure. The Critic is more...
ATHLETICS.This is the season of athletic sports at the different colleges of the two English Universities, and short summaries of the performances may be of interest...