Word: interest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...instance, in Boston want to discuss their subject. Why do not a few men go into them? Two groups of Socialists want to do the same. Henry George's Society has challenged business men, professors and clergymen alike without response. The work men have an intense and growing interest in taxation, and want knowledge. Here are great opportunities for scholars, for the practical workers are not trained to this...
...present condition of the glaciers in that region, where the decrease in size of the masses of ice during the past forty years, common to the whole mountain system of Central Europe, from the Pyrenees to the Caucasus, has excited great attention, not only as a matter of scenic interest, but bearing on glacial theories in general. Some geological work was also done in Southwestern England, and a few of the mines of Devonshire were examined during a hasty trip through that region...
...interest to note in comparison with these statistics that the number of books drawn from the Harvard Gore Hall Library by students is over 60,000 volumes for the year; and the number of reserved books taken out over night for the same time is more than 9000 volumes, about the amount taken out by Yale men from their university library, in the ordinary way, during an entire year...
...half of the present college year close Wednesday, after which the campus will be entirely deserted for three weeks, the vacation having been increased a week to make up for the decrease in the Thanksgiving recess. The change was made this year for the first time, particularly in the interest of western men who are unable to put the extra days at Thanksgiving time...
...journals, and a consensus of opinion that is being taken and will add weight to any future action in the matter. The second subject is one that has only lately acquired prominence, but which is perhaps the most important of the three. The subject of athletics is of especial interest at this time in view of the poor showing made by the college organizations during the past year...