Word: interest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hold such a course of readings will be an additional burden on our instructors; but, judging from the interest that has been already shown, they will find their kind efforts properly appreciated, for there are many students who are glad to make use of so favorable an opportunity to gain a wider knowledge of ancient and modern literature and of music. The courses in the foreign languages will also be useful, from the practice that they will give in following the text without being obliged to think of the separate meaning of each word; and only such philological, historical...
...bear witness to its popularity. But as soon as the snow clears off, and overshoes can be discarded, the time will have come for long walks. That happy afternoon when the hieroglyphics on your tabular view are not underscored will be devoted to exploring the surrounding country. When the interest of sight-seeing is added to the exhilarating effects of bodily exercise, we have every quality that can make an-out-door sport attractive; and long walks take a deservedly prominent place in the catalogue of our amusements...
...omit the reading of that invaluable paper. What I had discovered was no less than a new and practical idea on the subject of walking. I perceived that Middlesex County was a historic locality, that the philosophical walker should view it in this new light, and that the interest of his walks might centre not only on what has been beautified by nature, but also on what has been dignified by history. I need not state how I immediately purchased the guide-book recommended by the editorial pen, or how my chum ridiculed my enthusiasm. He consented, however, to humor...
...English cousins have been very generous of late. Each mail brings us more college news from the other side of the Atlantic. To-day we have to acknowledge the receipt of the Oxford Undergraduate's Journal; a large paper full of matter, chiefly of local interest...
...have received a perfect shower of Meteors from Rugby. The Eton College Chronicle has also reached us. The matter contained in these papers is of purely local interest; they are sporting journals of average merit, and as they make no pretence to literary excellence, it would be ungracious to criticise them further...