Word: interest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...first number of this year's Magenta it was asserted, in an article descriptive of last Class-Day, that the interest in Class-Day was slowly dying out, and that something must be done to renew it, or we should soon see the annual festival collapse altogether. Now, it behooveth us to devise at once some means of averting any such collapse; for it would be a misfortune indeed to be deprived of our only gala-day, or to have it still observed, but with its glory passed and its continuance a bore...
...much for externals. The chief reason for a decline of the interest felt in Class-Day may be found in the great increase of our classes. While the classes were one third or one half the size they are now, Seniors, with a few exceptions, could invite nearly all their friends in the vicinity to come and enjoy all the Class-Day exercises. Nowadays, with eight tickets to the Chapel and five to the tree, very few men can invite a large share of their acquaintance to these the most interesting parts of the programme...
...this broader study it is necessary to arrange the plays in true chronological order, which the Society proposes to do by an examination of the gradual change in Shakspere's versification through his life; and, for any one anxious to understand the poet, it cannot fail to be interesting to read the familiar plays under the light thrown on them from time by the papers and discussions of this Society. It is pleasant to know that the founders of the Society do not intend to confine its benefits to the number, necessarily small, of those who make a study...
...second toast was, "The Class of '76," to which Mr. R. W. Curtis responded. Mr. Curtis's peculiar province had been, to a certain extent, invaded by Mr. Botume; but he brought out several new points of interest in regard to boating and ball matters, concluding with a touching allusion to the Cricket Club, which, he remarked, had played one or two games during the year, "with more or less success...
...Toast-Master then gave the fourth toast, "The Literary Interest," and called on Mr. R. S. Culbreth. Mr. Culbreth's reply was witty and enthusiastic. Taking novels and the novelist as a theme, he spoke of the great advantage of a course of general reading in college. In reply to the fifth toast, "The Boating Interest," Mr. D. C. Bacon gave a short statement of the plans of the University Crew for the coming summer, and said that although the class had been somewhat unfortunate in losing a good many of its boating men, still "seventy-six" in all probability...