Word: interest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Amherst College is preparing a very elaborate display of catalogues, publications, photographic views and other things of interest for the Paris Exposition...
...part of a good many men to support the University crew. Many who can afford to give to the crew, not only refuse to do so, but take occasion to express dissatisfaction that after the defeats in the past few years, they should be expected to take any interest in the crew...
Among the societies which have risen this year from a state of torpor to activity, one of the most progressive is the Chess and Whist Club. After a close and interesting tournament, in which all members of the University were invited to contest, the club has started a whist tournament which promises to be equally successful. The proposed chess match with an outside club will also be watched with interest by the college. We congratulate the club upon its enterprise and success, which show that other scientific games, besides the various branches of athletic sports, have a firm foot-hold...
...protest against the position which criticism then accorded Homer in literature. Chapman, and later Pope, by their translations of his works, did much to arouse the world to a sense of the real superiority of Homer to all other poets. From that time he has been studied with increased interest and greater intelligence by the scholars of all countries...
...cricket club has been formed at Bryn Mawr College, a college similar to Vassar. It has a large and active membership, as the girls take great interest in the game...