Word: interest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...meeting of the club Wednesday evening it was voted that the regular fall championship match take place Saturday, December 16. To give interest to the match competitors will be divided into two classes; to the first any member will be admitted, to the second none who have ever made a score of thirty-eight or more out of a possible fifty in any match whatsoever. Of course no second-class man will be entitled to a first-class prize...
DEAR JACK, - I happened to meet the other day a fellow by the name of Robinson, who has lately been in Cambridge, and who told me that he had seen you there. He is related, I believe, to one of your classmates. My fraternal interest got the better of my manners, and I put him in a rather awkward position by asking him what he thought of you. He replied, with apparent sincerity, that you seemed to be a very good fellow, and that you were devilish amusing and impudent Now Robinson himself is a very good sort...
OWING to the wind and storm on Saturday, the match of the Rifle club was not a success. In such a gale it was impossible to shoot, but the excellent condition of the club and the interest taken in rifle-shooting were shown by the large number of men who entered for the match. The weather has changed so decidedly during the week, that we hope for more satisfactory results at the regular fall championship match to take place to-morrow. Columbia and Cornell are beginning to take up rifle-shooting, and the prospect of an intercollegiate match...
...dissolution of the Association would without doubt be a great calamity; the price of board would immediately rise in all the boarding-houses in Cambridge, and many men would be forced to pay a price which they could but ill afford. To avert such a disaster is for the interest of a very large number of students, and if they desire to protect themselves, their proper course is to join the Association at once. Investigations which are being made seem to show that the affairs of the Association have been very poorly managed, and it is certain that...
...effect our correspondent fears. An extract from an English paper on the construction of racing-boats, which accompanied the letter, but which was too long for insertion in our columns, we have banded to the captain of the University crew. If all our graduates took as active an interest in our boating affairs as this one, it would not be long before our prospects brightened...