Word: interest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...intention of the club is, not to settle in one evening matters of gravity over which gray-haired men have spent their lives, but to familiarize students who take some interest in current topics with the most able discussions bearing on those points...
...attempt is made by American institutions to prevent extravagant expenditure on the part of students by prohibiting gaming, horse-racing, contracting debts with very long credit and high rate of interest, or driving four-in-hands; but President Eliot thinks it will be fortunate if such regulations are not needed before our institutions are half as old as Oxford...
...programme of the approaching races. It is to be hoped that the Union Boat-Club will consider favorably the plan proposed for the combination regatta between the sixes and also between the fours, as the entrance of this well-known rowing association into the race will create new interest in boating, and afford some incentive to row and train for the next two months, beside the customary pewter mug. If convenient to the Union, the first race will take place early in May, and the second will be rowed after an interval of two weeks, thus finishing all work...
...Thursday the elective in English 5 tried an experiment in the shape of a debate. The subject chosen (the question whether women who pay taxes on property should be allowed to vote for city, town, and municipal officers) was practical in its nature, and considerable interest was taken in the debate. The question, too, had been well studied by the debaters. The experiment is the result of a desire, on the part of those who regulate the instruction given in college, to develop among the students an ability "to think on their legs," and in this way to become fitted...
...should like to call attention to the course of lectures to be given by the Rev. A. C. A. Hall on the History of the Early Christian Church. The subject is one of great interest, and deals with facts that every one, whatever his belief may be, should be acquainted with. Father Hall is a graduate of Christ Church, Oxford, and a member of the society of St. John the Evangelist. He has made a special study of Church History, and cannot fail to treat his subject in an interesting and masterly...