Word: interest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale, during the past two years, there has been a remarkably rapid growth of interest in debating A series of lectures by eminent public men has been arranged for this year, by the Yale Union, many minor debates are held between societies not organized for debate, between eating clubs and different tables in the Commons for example, and a set of prizes to be awarded annually after Yale's two intercollegiate debates have taken place, has been established...
Harvard, to whom was due perhaps the present revival of collegiate interest in debate, should not fall behind in developing that interest. The Harvard Union, like the Yale Union, has arranged a series of lectures on public speaking. The debating courses here give opportunity for practice in debate which probably more than equals in real value the frequent minor debates at Yale. But we do not yet offer prizes for excellence in debating...
...change would undoubtedly be welcomed by the undergraduates. Probably not one student in a hundred is genuinely interested in declamation; there is a flutter of interest in declamation each spring but it seems to be caused only by the two hundred and fifty dollars offered in prizes, and it dies away as soon as the prizes are awarded. On the other hand there is a substantial proportion of the students who are interested and give much time to debating work, not only in the debating societies but in the courses offered by the Faculty...
CHINESE NEW YEAR.- The Harvard Christian Association has been celebrating in its Chinese mission at 18 Oxford Street, Boston, the Chinese New Year which began at midnight last Sunday and ends at midnight tonight. It has arranged for visitors personally conducted trips through Chinatown. Only people interested in the Christian work among the Chinamen are invited and only a limited number of tickets have been put on sale. Harvard men taking an interest in the mission will be welcome this afternoon at 18 Oxford Street (three
...interest in debating has rapidly grown strong within the last two or three years, although it has always been a calm steady reasoning interest rather than a fiery enthusiasm, firing up one day and dying away the next. It has been based on the growing conviction that the ability to speak well in public is not only desirable but necessary for the proper and complete equipment of an educated man. Anything that will deepen this conviction, and so increase the interest in debating and public speaking, is to be welcomed; not only because it will be an aid to success...