Word: interest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Bartlett's. At least forty men should go in to the chess tournament, if Harvard is to keep the cup. As all members of the University may enter, and as the entrance fee is only fifty cents, there seems to be no reasonable excuse for the present lack of interest in the matter. All who know the moves are therefore again urged to enter; and it should be understood that even the weakest players may, in the process of their own instruction, help in a passive way the efforts of the stronger...
...with the first meeting of the Forum and the opening debate of the Union, should begin Harvard's active preparation for the intercollegiate debates. As the Yale debate last year showed, the work of preparation cannot be begun too soon. And, once begun, it should be continued with unabating interest and energy...
...John Watson, D.D., of Liverpool, is giving a course of lectures before the Divinity School, which are being very generally attended by members of the university. Dr. Watson also preached in the college chapel yesterday and he has created great interest here...
...question will be: "Resolved, That the election of William Jennings Bryan to the presidency would be for the best interest of the United States...
...dead make a great part, but they illuminate the lives of all who in future shall become members of this University. We are all associates with a common interest and common credit to win in the future. It is pretty hard to realize just what this descending honor from the men in the past and this ascending honor from us, means. We have to get at it from examples, and I take two examples from men who have died this summer." President Eliot then told of the lives of Professor Child and Ex-Governor Russell, and showed how through their...