Word: interest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Intercollegiate athletic contests bring out a man's college feeling more effectually than anything else can, and to abolish them in a college would be very perceptibly to diminish the interest of the students in that college as a whole by removing one of the most effective and legitimate means of arousing their loyalty to it. As I say, I shall be very much surprised and disappointed if the faculty see fit to pass the resolutions...
...Dana was stroke of the University crew for three years and its captain for two and a half years, at a time when the interest in boating was quite as great...
...interest manifested in the class races on the Charles is growing stronger year by year, as the crowded tug boats and the alley along the river, packed full of people, will amply testify to. Although the race did not begin at the advertised time, still the promptitude and energy in getting everything ready for the start evinced by the management was such that what little room for censure there is on this score can easily be overlooked. There were two things that occurred in the race, however, which need to be spoken of in order that they may be avoided...
...result was very favorable to our team as will be seen by the score, for it must be remembered that the Wellington Club has a great reputation. A week from Thursday a match will be shot with the University of Pennsylvania team at Watertown, which will excite great interest, as the Pennsylvania men come determined to win and wipe out the two defeats which they suffered last spring from Harvard, one match here and the other, a live-pigeon shoot in Philadelphia on the Pennsylvania Club's own grounds...
That the inter-class contests in track athletics were a decided success and ought to be continued in the future was clearly demonstrated yesterday afternoon by the close competition in the various events and the interest manifested by the large crowd of spectators. There was only one thing to mar the thorough enjoyment of everyone at the meeting, and that was the unfortunate accident to one of the riders in the bicycle race-an accident which can be easily averted in the future, and which in this case, happily, is not at all serious. One record was broken, presaging...