Word: interest
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...different athletic teams will represent Harvard and the Freshman class in athletic contests today and, although we feel sure that all will do the best of which they are capable, that best may not be enough to win in every case. Our interest naturally centres on the baseball game with Princeton, and by the result of that game will the success of the day be generally judged. To the minor University and Freshman teams, however, we wish the success which it is so gratifying to record in our athletic annals...
...here, the party passed the Medical School buildings and the Stadiium, which General Kuroki viewed with considerable interest. While in Cambridge, they visited the Longfellow House on Brattle street, and stopped at the Washington Elm. Shortly after 12 o'clock the party visited Memorial Hall, and from there they went through the Yard to the Union, where they were entertained at luncheon shortly after 1 o'clock in the Trophy Room...
...current number of the Harvard Illustrated Magazine is admirably edited. It contains three articles on University matters of contemporary interest, one on a subject of much importance to men choosing their careers, a poem, a story, and editorial, and a book review. The proper balance between topical and general themes is seldom so fortunately...
...acknowledge that, in the past; courses in Greek and in Roman literature have been sacrificed to men who intended to teach. Interest has been centred not on thought or method of expression, but on classification of verb forms or irregularities of syntax. A knowledge of the latter is no doubt necessary for appreciation: we must note the peculiar subjunctive or optative to get the peculiar shade of meaning; but we do not gain anything by regarding the peculiar form as a curiosity to be catalogued, as the entomologist catalogues a rare insect. Greek and Latin are not word-puzzles...
...think that the Department of the Classics has realized its former shortcomings and is endeavoring, in its courses on literature, to substitute personal, historical, and literary interest for grammar and exegesis. In this effort much depends on the instructors, some of whom make even interesting courses dull, while others are most fortunate in the presentation of their subjects; nothing, for instance, could be more delightful than Professor Rand's exposition of Horace. We hope that men who wish to take the word-puzzle view of the classics will be relegated to courses of their own, and that all the courses...