Word: interest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the Exeter men at Harvard cannot be persuaded to form an Exeter Club here. Again and again has the subject been brought up through your columns, editorially and by communication, but still the men remain inactive. I do not think that this is entirely due to lack of interest in Harvard, but more probably because no one wishes to assume the lead in the matter. Such modesty is entirely out of place, and no man who would be at all likely to have influence in the formation of an Exeter club should be controlled by such petty feeling...
...annual reports of the president and officers of Harvard University just issued contain many facts of marked interest. The year 1887-88 was unusually successful, both intellectually and financially. The increase in students was 124, and was divided mainly among the college, the graduate department, and the law school. The veterinary school is the only department of the university which ended the year with a deficit...
College men will read with interest Richard M. Hurd's article on "Athletics at Yale University" in Outing for February. Full-page illustrations of the various teams, together with running, hurdling, and pole-vaulting scenes, add materially to the value of the article...
...Martha J. Lamb, is entitled "Washington as President." The seat of government was then in New York. It is an account of Washington's presidential life in New York city. The social and official sides of his life are minutely portrayed. The article is extremely entertaining and the interest is increased by two full-page pictures of Mrs. Washington's reception day, also a print of the executive mansion which was never used. The essay covers twenty-three pages...
...unfortunate that the notice of Professor Norton's lecture to-night should have been omitted from the college calendar. Many of us will be deprived of hearing Professor Norton speak on a subject of great interest, simply because insufficient notice was given. The loss will be greater than that of missing an ordinary lecture. If, as Professor Norton maintains, people in America neglect that side of cultivation which ancient Greece and her works of art represent, there can be no better way for Americans to redeem themselves than by contributing to help on the excavations of Delphi and then profiting...