Word: interest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...granted that there are obvious drawbacks to the selection is this, the eleventh hour, quite the time for opposition? If there is a general feeling among Harvard men against the Brooks House site, let us hope that in the future it will serve as a reminder that constant interest in the geographical extension of the University is the surest method of leading it aright...
...Much interest has been developed in debating during the past week as a result of the approach of the annual Yale debate. The preliminary debates within the literary societies were held last evening to choose eight men to contest in the final contest on Friday evening. From the Cliosophic Society, R. L. Beecher '98, M. Lowrie '98, W. M. Schultz '99, and A. Easton 1900, were chosen, and from the American Whig Society, H. H. Yocum '98, W. F. M. Combs '98, A. S. Weston '99, and S. McDermott '98. R. F. Sterling '97 will represent the graduate students...
...father, Victor Hugo is the type of the French bourgeois. The French Bourgeois is a settled, sensible and prudent person; he is a man of the home; he distrusts passion; he loves his wife and loves his children even more; he is idle and talkative; he takes a deep interest in politics; he is a patriot and loves all things military; he is not very religious and not at all mystic; on the other hand, he has a distinct taste for morality and for commonplaces. Victor Hugo was all this: a bourgeois with genius...
There is one danger connected with the whole affair, however. While the new system may help to raise the strength average by arousing more general interest in the test, it may lead to exaggeration of individual work at the expense of the athletic teams. Beneficial as gymnasium work is and to be encouraged among a certain class of men, if it puts a premium on indoor in opposition to outdoor exercise, and encourages individual at the expense of team work, it is in measure disadvantageous. This fact has already been recognized by a number of men with the result that...
...Bolling 1900, the author of "In Alien Earth," has proved that a short story may be on the subject of water-rotted corpses without being essentially morbid. Somehow or other "The Disappointment of Lord Hartleigh," by E. W. S. Pickhardt '98, with all its facility, fails to interest...