Word: interest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fishermen on the Boston T Wharf has been open daily since January 6. As the need for such a room had long been felt, the success of the undertaking has proved complete. Financial support has been forthcoming through the kindness of the Boston Port Society, and the interest taken by the fish merchants and the seamen themselves has proved most gratifying...
...choice of periodicals to be placed on file seems at first a rather strange one, but it was made by a committee after noticing carefully what papers and magazines the men who use the room cared for and could appreciate. The magazines chosen are intended to interest and attract men to the room as well as to instruct...
...performance of Alice in Wonderland, to be given at Copley Hall, Boston, on the evenings of Feb. 17, 18, 19, and 20, are of especial interest to Harvard men, for the cast is made up almost entirely of Harvard graduates and undergraduates. Although the cast is composed wholly of men, the play is to be given seriously, as a classic; and the demand that has come for a matinee performance on the twentieth for children shows that older people are not the only ones interested...
...sentiment is away from declamation which perhaps once flourished in the University, and toward debate. This is shown by the fact that the Boylston Prize contests which used to pack Sanders Theatre now gather hardly a handful. The intercollegiate debates on the contrary are better attended and attract more interest each year. The College offers no opportunity for training in declamation while there has been a substantial growth in the instruction given in debate. English 6 has increased in numbers and English 30 has been added; English 10 looks toward debate rather than declamation...
...University of Freiburg, Baden. where also he holds a professorship. He did active service here only three years, but is now considering a proposal recently made him by President Eliot to become a regular, resident professor at Harvard. The Department of Philosophy is awaiting his decision with much interest, for if he refuses the offer, the Department will lose a valuable member, and readjustments will be necessary...