Word: interest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...course of fortnightly lectures on "The Prophetic Element in the Old Testament," by Dr. William R. Harper of Yale has awakened a new interest in Bible study...
...short time ago the Pennsylvania Club challenged the Connecticut Club to a joint debate. A committee from the two clubs decided to hold the debate last Monday evening in Sever 11. The details of the debate were arranged and much interest was felt in both clubs in regard to the result. The purpose of thus holding a joint debate was to keep up the interest in the organizations of men from the States of Pennsylvania and Connecticut. The Pennsylvania Club has, however, withdrawn its challenge for the alleged reason that none of its members were willing to become principal disputants...
...hoped that after the recess the clubs will be able to carry out this plan of debate, or to form some other agreement by which the interest in the organizations may be increased...
...many years. The advance sale of tickets for this concert was unusually large, it being impossible to procure a seat in any part of the house two days before the date of the performance. The coming western tour of the Glee and Banjo Clubs probably accounts for the unusual interest taken in their concert, the public being curious to know how Harvard is to be represented in the west...
...took as his text the incident of Mary being excluded from the inn prior to Christ's birth. He said if men would only consent to come into real contact with Christianity it would have the effect of an electric battery, establishing a complete sovereignty in their thought, interest, and being. The choir sang the anthems, "It came upon the midnight clear," by Sullivan; "Thus said the Lord," from the Messiah, sung by Mr. Richardson, of Boston, and Gounod's "Nazareth...