Word: interest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...think the crew has acted wisely. He is a man who understands rowing thoroughly, having stroked his class crew for two years and having associated closely with boating men since he entered college. We are confident that he will let no means go untried that will advance the interest of the crew: his energy in pushing the construction of the rowing tank and in obtaining the use of the Shawmut Boat Club house is assurance of that. With the warm support of the crew and the college, which we are confident he will well deserve, Mr. Herrick will have...
...more than fifty men were present at the Union meeting last evening. This is a surprisingly small number, as the question debated is one that is stirring our nation at present, and therefore should be of great interest to us all. The question before the meeting read thus: "Resolved, that the causes for divorce should be made uniform throughout the United States by constitutional amendment...
...difficult for a Harvard man of today to call up a picture of the college life of half a century ago. Of course, a batch of picked men, interested in preparing for life, will be like another body with the same interest, though half a century parts them. But the methods of study are quite different now from what they were between 1830 and 1840; and the great increase in the number of students brings a hundred changes. The Cambridge of that day was much more distant from Boston than is that of today; for a regular line, even...
...captain of the crew and present himself as a candidate. The class and the college needs them, and they will be acting foolishly and shamefully if, satisfied with having belonged to a victorious freshman eleven, they expect to see their crew successful through their inaction and lack of interest...
...Revolutions in Spanish America," by Hon. Wm. L. Scruggs, will be of interest to students in the history courses...