Word: interest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Latin. The deciding game is to be played on Brookline Common this afternoon at 3.15. I desire, through the columns of the CRIMSON, to urge every graduate of the B. L. S. in college to be present and support the team. It will give impetus to a newly developed interest in foot-ball, which, if kept up and developed, must benefit not only the athletic interests in the school, but sooner or later, those of Harvard herself, to whom the Latin school sends so many students every year...
...recent meeting of the American Oriental Society in Philadelphia, was one of great interest to orientalists and laymen alike. Harvard professors figured conspicuously in the gathering as well as other representative scholars from many parts of the country...
...chief interest of the meeting was, however, Semitic. Several of the young Assyrian scholars presented papers of more or less value. The novelty of this subject, the vistas which it opens into times until now considered prebistoric, the revelations which it makes of great and long vanished peoples, the important relations to the scientific study of the Old Testament, all make the Assyrian a source of unfailing interest. The Biblical student in particular would be pleased by the paper from Prof. Haupt, of Baltimore, determining the size of the boat in which, according to the Babylonian account, the hero...
...subject of Semitic study in America. Among the speakers were Professors Toy and Lyon of Cambridge, Professor Green, of Princeton, and Professor Harper, of Yale. It is understood that the addresses are to be published in a pamphlet, and it is hoped that they may excite a yet greater interest in the important topic to which they relate...
...volume of the Advocate will be ready this afternoon. The first few columns as usual are given up to editorials which certainly sustain the reputation of these columns in previous issues. The Advocate is almost always to be congratulated upon the stand it takes on matters of general college interest...