Word: interest
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Great praise is due the managers of the Harvard Illustrated Magazine for the energy and zeal they have displayed in calling the attention of the University to the need of a larger gymnasium. Perhaps no one factor has contributed more to arouse the interest in physical training than the building of the Hemenway Gymnasium in 1878. Seventy-five per cent. of the school and college gymnasium directors in the United States have received at least a part of their training in this institution while attending Harvard's summer courses in physical education, and the stream of influence that has been...
...that he had been greatly impressed during his recent travel in the South by the great gains education is making there, the most significant feature being the rapid growth and development and the improvement in quality of the secondary schools there. Harvard and all the great universities have especial interest in this gain of the schools. The prestige of Harvard must be maintained before the country by the conspicuous success of its graduates. The changes in the methods of education in the last 40 years have emphasized the value of the practical side of modern education. President Eliot pointed...
...given only in summary, deals with the appointment of W. F. Garcelon L. '95 as graduate treasurer of the Athletic Association. Mr. Garcelon was chosen after a long and careful search. He had been for some years the unpaid advisor of the track team, and had always shown great interest in out-door sports at Harvard...
...Library has received from J. P. Morgan, Jr., '89, 86 volumes of the works of Thomas Hearne, an English antiquarian of the 18th century. The books were published at the Sheldonian Theatre, in Oxford, and are rare copies. One of the most interesting is a diary which describes the events of 1708 to 1735. Among the volumes of special interest are: Leland's 'Itinerary," Alfred's "Annals," Camden's "Annals," and Robert of Gloucester's "Chronicle," all of which were edited by Hearne...
...undergraduates object to the charge of indifference being brought against them, they should see to it that there is no ground for such a charge. Strangers who come to take a hand in Harvard affairs are often impressed by this apparent lack of interest, and go away bearing tales which make mere thoughtlessness appear to be gross indifference...