Word: interest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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EACH year when a new class enters College, the higher classes look to it to furnish men, who are to take the place in boating of those who have just graduated. And those Freshmen who feel themselves able to make good oarsmen should take an interest in rowing, not for the sake of pleasure alone, but more than that, to keep up the boating prestige of the College which they have chosen for their Alma Mater. The present Freshman Class is by far the largest which has ever entered at Harvard, and from all appearances ought to contribute largely toward...
...before him, and even if his talents will not permit him to be a professor, nor his means to be a liberal patron of that art for which he feels the greatest fondness, he may, by his conversation in friendly intercourse, diffuse the results of his study, and stimulate interest and activity in others, who could hardly be aroused in any other...
...window, which, when completed, is to contain a corresponding figure of Columbus. After the ice has thus been once broken and a window fairly erected, it is to be hoped that other classes, beholding the beauty thereof, will copy the good example thus set before them, and evince their interest by contributing liberally to the furtherance of the work of adorning our grand banqueting-hall...
...responded to by the following gentlemen: "Our Alma Mater," Mr. Wheeler, in the absence of Mr. Sykes, who was appointed to respond; "The Athenaeum of '77," Mr. Watson; "The Ladies," Mr. Cushing; "The Athenaeum of '78," Mr. Vinton, in absence of Mr. Tufts, who was to respond; "Our Literary Interest," Mr. Tiffany; "Annuals," Mr. B. F. Bailey; "Our Music," Mr. Lamson; "Carl's," Mr. Hatch; "Our Drama," Mr. Sargent; "Vacation," Mr. Sawyer. The singing went off well under the direction of Mr. Greenleaf and with the assistance of Mr. Babcock. The responses to the toasts and the literary parts were...
...This interruption arises neither from lack of enthusiasm in the pupils of Penikese, nor from any want of generous interest in the naturalists who have thus far given their services to aid the enterprise. On the contrary, the second summer at Penikese was, to the surprise of its friends, as striking a success as the first had been, and the lists for the coming year were as crowded as ever. But the pupils at Penikese come from a poorly paid class. However grateful for the privilege of studying at a seaside school of natural history, very few among them...