Word: interest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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During the present month the second tests of the course will be made in the "dip" and "pull-up" and the advance made during the year in these tests will be noted with interest. The object of these strength tests is to ascertain how much the drills effect the total results. At the beginning of the college year the average "pull-up" for the class was 9.7, the average "push" 5.3, and the average total strength 1,641 pounds, which are considered very creditable figures...
...whole the book is entertaining, the interest of the reader increasing to the very last adventure, which furnishes an admirable climax to the story...
Last year it was thought that if these games were held before the class championships greater interest might be shown, and the surmise, thanks in measure to Mr. Leiter's offer of prize cups, proved correct. Twenty nines were formed and the series was productive of some creditable and exciting play. As announced, Mr. Leiter makes the same offer again this year, and it is hoped that with notice of the series given thus early many nines will be organized...
...speak of its services to Freshman debating, almost the existence of a Freshman club rests on the interest aroused by rivalry with some other organization, and now that Yale freshman debates are forbidden some definite adversary is needed to keep the men up to their best work and render the club as good a training ground as possible. This service the Sophomore Club has thus far well rendered, and the importance of continuing the good work must be recognized. In its contests with the Freshman Club it labors under the disadvantage of having its honorary members who are on either...
...special interest in the number of the Graduates' Magazine for March is an interesting article on Required Gymnastics at Harvard by Henry W. Putnam '69, who expresses himself as strongly in favor of a compulsory system. The University Archives by Wm. Garret Brown '91 describes the old record books stored in the basement of Gore Hall, and an article on the Graduate Athletic Association by A. P. Gardner '86 well sets forth the aims and hopes of the Association. From a Graduate's Window, concerning Harvard Episodes, expressed the opinion that Mr. Flandrau, in searching the weaknesses of college life...