Word: interest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Interest in base ball is active. Two nines are at work in the Gymnasium...
...attractive enough to induce many to make use of them except just before the races; nor have the prizes offered been of a sufficiently high grade to induce men to train any length of time for them. Consequently the races are more or less uninteresting, and the general interest in rowing is lessened. Mr. Blakey has offered to sell the boats and oars and lease of the house for twenty-five hundred dollars, and this can be paid in two years' time, one instalment of about three fifths of the whole amount, or fifteen hundred dollars, payable on taking possession...
...hope that all persons who have the least interest in our boating will join the clubs; it is a great mistake that many make in thinking that because they may be too light or weak to row for the crews, this should hinder them from joining their club. It is hoped to make the house and boats attractive enough to induce men who are not able or disposed to train for the races to join for the sake of the pleasure derived from sculling around the river watching the crews, and using the six and four oars when the crews...
This gentleman's statistics of the number of beards, the ages, the religions, the sizes of shoes, and the weights of the class seemed to interest the people of Orono, and his record of the scenes of hazing his class had been through thrilled the audience with enthusiasm. The prophecy must have been even more uninteresting to a stranger. But the valedictory reached the climax of the absurd. After informing us that this was the last time his class would ever meet together, he thanked the President and Superintendents for their leniency, and expressed his gratitude to the people...
...wish to call attention to the true state of the club system of boating and to the real causes for that lack of interest which threatens to prove fatal. We believe that the trouble does not lie with the system itself, which was founded, after careful study, by men experienced in college boating and which, by the success of its first year, proved its excellence as a system. During that year good crews were carefully got together and good races rowed, and it was shown that, under these circumstances, enough rivalry existed to render the races amply interesting...