Word: interest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...considering the narrower phase of his subject-public speaking in the university-Mr. Lehmann spoke of the universities with which he had been most intimately acquainted-Oxford and Cambridge. In these two universities, interest in public speaing and debating is represented by the Union Debating Societies, open to all members of the two institutions. Having survived the prejudice which they at first awakened, they are today a most influential factor in English university life. Each society has a club-house, containing rooms for debating and reading, beside dining halls and rooms for social meetings. The weekly debates attract great numbers...
...faculty restriction '98 did not play the Yale freshmen at baseball in their freshman year, while they met them at football and rowing, winning one and losing the other, both after the closest kind of a contest. Therefore a ball game with Yale '98 will be of special interest...
This year's class races are to be the first public test of the new rowing system as applied to the various crews in the University, and will be of unusual interest for several reason. In the first place the class crews are generally believed to average faster and generally better than ever before, and are so evenly matched that the race is sure to be close and hard. Moreover, this is the first year in which there has been enough interest in rowing to support second class crews or Weld crews and there has been much attention given...
...certainly a sign of a good healthy activity in rowing to see sculling races and races between Weld crews as well as the class crews, and to see enough undergraduate interest to need three tugs to follow the races instead of the usual...
...capable, and to help it do this, a large crowd of undergraduates must be present to support the team with strong, organized cheering. This game, as the first important one of the year to be played in Cambridge will give the University its first real chance to show its interest in the team, and to this end it is to be sincerely hoped that the baseball management will make definite arrangements to have the cheering led as it should be. Too often there has been need of cheering at a game and a crowd of men there ready and anxious...