Word: interest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...lectures before the Art Club have proved eminently successful. The first one was delivered on Tuesday, March 2, by Professor Norton, who expressed first his interest in the Club, and then proceeded to give an account of the condition of Art at Venice during the most prosperous days of the city. On Tuesday, March 9, Mr. Ware, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gave an account of the building of the Louvre and the Tuileries, which was both interesting and instructive. Mr. Ware illustrated his remarks by a large number of photographs, and by a diagram of the buildings...
...approached, and of course nothing more than a mere outline can be attempted in the narrow compass of eight one-hour lectures. But Mr. Perkins possesses the happy faculty of condensing much information into a little space, and also of presenting it in such an attractive way as to interest and instruct at the same time. Without striving to be what is called a popular lecturer, Mr. Perkins supposes in each of his hearers an interest in the subject, and to such his lectures cannot fail to be of profit...
...fact, no one who is interested in the subject can attend the course without being able to form intelligent opinion upon the subject, and to gain some standard, beside that of a mere uncultivated fancy, by which to judge of the merit of engravings; and the audience, although not as large as might be expected from the value of the course, yet is all that could be wished in the evident interest and attention which it manifests...
...room has, years ago, belonged to an Adams, an Emerson, or a Sumner, and immediately he feels a bond of union, slight though it be, with those famous men, and a desire to know more of them. If anything could be devised which would possess, not only the intrinsic interest of a transmittendum, but also lend the room the additional charm of having been occupied by a man famed far and wide for great ability or uprightness, it would certainly, in many cases, be setting a strong influence at work to raise the general tone of an undergraduate's life...
...recur to an old method of forming crews, which every one has been very glad to see given up. On each club crew all classes are generally well represented, and no other system is able to bring out such uniformly good crews, or arouse such general interest in the result. Class crews involve more or less additional expense, which very rarely returns an equivalent. The Beacon Cup was given originally as a prize for class crews, but there is no reason why its purpose should not be changed, as has been done with the Graduates' Cup, and be offered...