Word: interest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Advocate presents a new number, rather above the average in interest. Under "The Week," Harvard's athletic outlook is discussed. The writer takes a gloomy view of the coming season, and calls upon the college to check the successive defeats of recent years by more earnest and general co-operation. For "men must work individually to induce promising fellows to become candidates for the various teams; men must themselves discuss athletic questions," more thoroughly, so as to let athletic men feel "that they are the representatives of a compact body of men" who are "determined to win." The next topic...
...with educational institutions, as well as with the world. Their attitude here is that of impartial, disinterested observers. Their opinion must, therefore, carry great weight with it; and it is a fact that the report of their committee has been awaited in many quarters with a great deal of interest because of the definite and trustworthy information it would certainly give on the much discussed question of the moral and intellectual earnestness of Harvard students...
...reply to the questions, What advantages induced you to come to Harvard? Have your expectations been fulfilled? What advantages have you found that you did not expect? The answers are especially interesting; they show conclusively that men find here the advantages they have anticipated, and many others in addition. A full list of the advantages mentioned cannot be given, but a few of those most emphatically dwelt upon by the men who wrote the committee will be of interest; they are: general reputation, superiority of instructors, wide range of courses of instructions, methods of instruction including the elective system; various...
With its meeting last evening, the Chess and Whist club brought to a close the most successful year of its existence. It has risen from a lifeless and insignificant to an active and energetic society, and by its tournaments and matches, has revived an interest throughout the college in two scientific and deservedly popular games. The success of the club during the past year has shown conclusively that chess does not demand too much time and study to hold a secure place among college games, and that whist may be raised to a higher plane than that of a mere...
...become crackshots, can by dint of practice, become sure and steady shots, and it is of such men that the team is in need. The more men there are at the weekly shoots, the more pleasant they are, as everyone knows who was on the grounds February 22d. If interest enough were taken every shoot might be just as pleasant, and men would go gladly, instead of forgetting about the meetings, or making up some trivial excuse for their absence...