Word: interest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lecture-room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, yesterday afternoon, Dr. Wheeler delivered his sixth lecture in the series on the Athenian Acropolis. The room was again filled and Dr. Wheeler's talk on the Marbles of the Parthenon was listened to with an interest which must certainly be flattering to the lecturer...
...Deutscher Verein course, the lecture on "Goethe as Autobiographer," by Professor A. A. Ripley, of Boston, will be very entertaining. In addition to those mentioned, several debates and readings of less general interest are announced. In this list every student ought to be able to find something attractive...
...Boston Athletic Club is very anxious to get up an eight to row Harvard. Much interest is being taken in the project by the members of the club, and if little difficulty is met with in selecting the men for the crew, and if Harvard will agree to row a race, the club will buy a shell. There are several college oarsmen in the Athletic Club and an eight selected from their number could hardly fail to be a strong one after suitable training...
...four o'clock. The men were: Staunton, '89, bow; Perkins, '91, 2; Sanford, 3; Alexander, L. S., 4; Finlay, '91, 5; Longworth, '91 6; Hutchinson, 7; Herrick, '90, (captain), stroke. Storrow, '85, acted as coach. There were many at the boat-house watching the crews go out, and the interest in the rowing seemed to be great...
...been known for some time that the 'varsity crew is to have a new paper shell, but beyond this there has been nothing of especial interest to say of it. The shell will be built on the conventional Waters model, and will be about the same as the boat used last year. It is to be sixty feet in length, twenty-four inches in width, and eight and three-quarter inches deep. Nothing definite is known yet about the rig. One new feature will be tried, however: the tiller lines will be so arranged that the coxswain can grasp...