Word: interest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...furnish a basis on which to divide the class into several sections, which should differ from each other both as regards the time when themes should first be written, and also as regards their number. These suggestions are made merely to show that the undergraduates take fully as much interest in this subject as the alumni, and feel just as keenly as they the disgrace that comes upon a college when any of its graduates are found to be ignorant of the rudiments of an ordinary English education...
...would hardly be possible for this University race to take place on the same day with the class races, but if it were rowed, say, on the next Saturday, the men would be in condition, and the spectators would by no means have lost their interest. The time made by the University in such a race, together with their general appearance, would also furnish a much better criterion from which to form an opinion of what they were going to do at Saratoga than could possibly be obtained from watching them practise alone...
...interest of '77 in Base Ball is shown by the number trying for the Nine, who are Messrs. Bird, Culbertson, Curtis, Eaton, Herrick, Keys, Latham, Leeds, McDowell, Nash, Roby, Sawyer, Thatcher, Tower, Walker, and Wheeler...
...boys into their hoppers, and turn out "liberally educated men." We care nothing for the holiday in itself, but it seems to us that the Faculty has no moral right to disregard days which the whole nation celebrates. Such a policy is not calculated to create or promote that interest which young men ought to feel in the events thus commemorated...
...internal evidence afforded by the Bowdoin Orient goes to show that the interest in college journalism at Bowdoin must be at a very low ebb. We are sorry it is so, but candor compels us to say that the number for February II is shockingly flimsy...