Word: interest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...first place, a humorous article to be popular must of course have reference to some circumstances interesting to its readers. Now the leading newspapers of the present day are full of such articles to a greater or less extent. The writers of these articles, having greater experience than the contributors to college papers, are more capable of writing so as to please their readers; further, they have a greater field of operation, since they are not confined to productions which have their application in any one direction. Besides, newspaper contributors have a much less cultivated class of readers to address...
...writings are not favorably received in college journals is, because they appear to have no point to them; or if they have their applications, they are so poorly carried out, either by inability on the part of the writer or by his seemingly forgetting his primary object, that the interest awakened at the beginning gradually fails. It is difficult for the college writer to find worthy objects for his wit, and nearly as difficult to carry through that wit consistently to the end. Since the readers of the college journals are for the most part educated, and since witty writings...
...CLAUSE in Mr. Sumner's will establishes an annual prize consisting of the interest of $1,000 for the best essay from any member of any department of Harvard College. He assigned for a subject, "Universal Peace and the Methods by which War may be permanently suspended." Though none recognized more fully than he that armed injustice must be crushed by the strong hand of power, he still numbers himself among those who believe that in some future age the Diplomat shall entirely supersede the General. It is a matter of some doubt, perhaps, whether Universal Peace shall dawn before...
...those happy mortals who are content to let well enough alone in these matters, neither half of this question has any interest; but to those who intend to change their present rooms, or who may say of their chums and themselves, "And we've agreed together that we can never agree," the decision of one or both parties is of some importance...
...work is to contain heliotypes of every building connected with the College proper and of its various departments, several interiors, representations of the College at different periods in its growth, society-rooms, - provided the consent of the societies can be obtained, - and other objects of interest to the graduate or undergraduate. In addition to these there will be heliotypes of a few of the former Presidents, and of all the Professors at present in the University, making the number of illustrations about one hundred and twenty, varying two or three more or less. Accompanying the heliotypes of the Professors, which...