Word: interest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Rattle asked Mr. Knowlton, the manager of the Riverside Recreation Grounds, to show him over the kitchen department. While looking over the ice room he carelessly stepped backwards and fell through the open trap door into the ice house below. He says not even this can cool his interest in the grounds...
...chosen last night to represent Harvard in the coming Princeton debate, are first of all and deservedly to be congratulated. They have passed through a trial ordeal, which, although necessary and right in the interest of the debate, might, in the preliminary steps it entailed, well have exerted a discouraging influence...
...coming series will be such a dead failure as this seems to forbode. Possibly there is some delay among teams intending to enter, or some misunderstanding as to the date when entries are closed. We sincerely hope that there is some such explanation for this seeming lack of interest. The scrub games were so generally appreciated last year, and proved such an excellent introduction to the class series, that their omission would be indeed unfortunate...
...History Club, which was organised in February of this year "to promote the discussion of subjects of common interest to advanced students of history," has arranged for three meetings to be held this spring...
...many of them as possible, have always been the attractive feature and in fact the raison d'etre of the exercises, and the more their number is reduced the less successful such exercises will be. If their number is reduced the other classes will begin to lose interest in the affair, and Harvard can not afford to let slip her single annual chance of getting the whole body of undergraduates together. Moreover the graduates who attend the exercises add zest to the occasion, and it is a positive fact that the uncomfortable conditions of past years have kept many away...