Word: interest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...plans for the new boat house will arouse general interest. Not only do they show the undergraduates, who are hoping in the future to make it the headquarters of winning crews, that the graduates are with them and are doing their best to give Harvard athletics the finest possible equipment, but they also prove conclusively that the structure is to be first class throughout. The new boat house can do much toward centralizing and enlarging Harvard's rowing interests and evidently no pains are being spared toward making it as effective as possible. It is thus a practical example...
...building will be of wood, and the outside finish will be very much like that of the present Locker Building, while the inside will be sheathed throughout. The size of the new boat house will leave room for a number of additional crews and a large extension of rowing interest it is hoped will accompany its acquisition...
...Waldo Richards will give a recital in Brattle Hall on Monday evening. The programme will include selections from Stevenson, Kipling, Eugene Field' James Whitcomb Riley and others. The reading is to be in the interest of a charity...
...Chapel this evening is of special importance for two reasons. In the first place the Rev. J. H. Barrows, D. D., of the University of Chicago, who is to deliver the lecture, is well-known as a religious leader and organizer, and is especially well calculated to arouse general interest. In the second place the lecture as a survival of the ancient college is of historic interest and should call forth a large audience...
...that on Professor Norton's giving up such large courses many will lose the opportunity of entering into more or less personal relationship with him. That this has been a privilege generally coveted is in measure due to his popularity among the students, and to the whole-souled interest he has always manifested in their welfare. Beyond this popularity, however, it is due to his recognition throughout the country as a sincere and fearless critic in both art and literature, which inevitably reflects great credit on Harvard and enhances his value in the eyes of Harvard...