Word: interest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...arranging for the lectures by Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson and ex-President Andrew D. White of Cornell, the Harvard Union shows commendable activity. Addresses by such successful speakers and prominent men as Col. Higginson and Dr. White will not only be of great interest and value to a student audience, but will help to strengthen and make more lasting the already wide-spread and genuine interest in public speaking at Harvard...
...interest being taken by the Mott Haven candidates in the relay teams and in the whole work of training for the track team is very encouraging. Sixty-three men, an unusually large number of whom are fast runners, tried for places on the relay teams. The interest augurs well for success in the Boston Athletic Association games next Saturday and makes the prospect of developing a winning team for the intercollegiate games next spring encouraging...
Yesterday afternoon the final trials to pick the men for the 'Varsity and class relay teams were held on the board track back of the Gymnasium. A great deal of interest has been taken in these races, as no less than sixty-three candidates have been trying for places on the different teams. The men average better this year than they did last, and all the teams should prove fast...
...Heywood entered Harvard in 1844 and after graduation studied law with Hon. Samuel Hoar and Hon. E. Rockwood Hoar, being admitted to the bar in 1850. In his early manhood he took an active interest in local affairs, in which he was very prominent during a greater portion of his life...
...team has already played a number of games with local teams in New Haven. At Princeton the team spent a part of the Christmas recess in training on the ponds about the town. In Philadelphia also the unusually cold weather before Christmas was favorable to the development of an interest in the game. The game has become so popular and so general that an intercollegiate league is talked...