Word: interest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...honor a Harvard man who has achieved such instantaneous success as Edward Sheldon '08, whose first play has been hailed by the great majority of critics as a work of originality and power. Like "The Great Divide," by William Vaughn Moody '93, "Salvation Nell" is marked by intensity of interest and force of action, and its numerous passages of virile strength give promise of greater work in the future. A special performance of Mr. Sheldon's play will be given at the Majestic Theatre tonight by Mrs. Fiske and her company. Practically the whole of the orchestra will be occupied...
Some brief book reviews complete a number of quite exceptions interest and enterprise...
...announcement that the scrub fencing tournament has been abandoned because of an insufficient number of entries is another instance of the lack of interest taken in fencing at Harvard. Compared with this sport, basketball is a flourishing institution. Very few men go out for the University team, and at the class tournament last month one member of the Freshman team was absent and the Juniors were not represented at all. No wonder the University team failed to qualify for the intercollegiate tournament in the last two years. When there is so little general interest taken that the majority...
...Room of the gymnasium this afternoon at 4 o'clock. On account of the small number of entries the entry list will be open until the beginning of the tournament. The members of the University fencing team, who have offered the cups as prizes, have decided that unless more interest is made evident by atleast three additional entries, the tournament will not take place. All teams will be chosen as evenly and as fairly as possible, in order to insure a close competition...
...Cable '09 spoke of the opporbrium on scholarship which unquestionably existed or had existed. If such marks of interest as the present occasion had been more frequent, the Faculty would not have had to ask a College committee to investigate this evil. As a reason, it seemed evident that when all interest was devoted to athletics, scholarship should be left out. Undergraduates, however, are coming to realize more and more the close relation between vigorous effort in College and success in after-life. This is the attitude which will do away with any opprobrium...