Word: interest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...announcement in Saturday's Calendar of the series of lectures by Dr. John Fiske on "The Early History of Virginia and the Other Southern Colonies" will be read with great pleasure throughout the University. To those who are at all interested in American history the attractive subjects of the lectures and the acknowledged authority of the lecturer on these subjects will make the series of particular interest and value...
...management of the Football team has done an excellent thing in sending several prominent members of the team during the past week to coach the elevens at Andover and Exeter. The show of that interest, which Harvard certainly feels for these preparatory schools, will do much to increase the favor in which Harvard is held by them, and will aid in inducing graduates from them to come to Harvard. Not only will prominent athletes be induced to enter Harvard, but the interest shown in the schools will create among the students there a general interest in this University in return...
France, said Professor Wendell, had been called the Greece of Modern Europe, and in a certain sense she is rightly called so. By the self-concentration so characteristic of the Greeks she has given us a style beyond criticism; for the French by this self-centred interest developed a rigid self-criticism, which was the parent of an excellent style. Unlike English, we find in French literature no flashes of genius; but on the other hand we do find that consistent mediocrity which the English so strikingly lacks...
...first trial to choose Harvard's representatives in the Princeton debate, that the number and ability of the men who tried was insufficient to choose the required number of men from, brings out forcibly a very disheartening condition of our debatting affairs. Owing to the act of interest in the trial by the students an other debate had to be arranged for Monday night...
...Freshman classes have been blamed for having the enthusiasm more of a body of third year Graduates studying for a doctorate than of young and enthusiastic first year men. But such lethargy, such a lack of class spirit, such disheartening and selfish indifference to everything except their own private interests, no Freshmen, within the memory or knowledge of any present undergraduate, have shown. They will have no one to blame but themselves, if the eleven, stirred by no interest or support by their classmates, lose any feeling of responsibility they may have and fail to win the one important game...