Word: interest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...element in the athletic problem now under discussion, something ought to be said in behalf of the swimming team, and of swimming as a college interest. To be sure, little is heard of this branch of the minor sports, but that is mainly due to the lack of any University swimming pool, an institution which is needed, for obvious reasons, just as much as a new gymnasium. The swimming team has always been as much handicapped for want of a place in which to practice, as would be the University football team if it were confined throughout its season...
...invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest...
...undergraduate's interests here at Harvard may be classed under three heads,--athletic, social,--both harmless and vicious,--and academic. The Faculty, realizing that, in the race to win the interest of the average undergraduate, it is far behind the promoters of athletic and social enterprises, proposes to exclude, in a measure, the other competitors. Before it does so it would be well for it to examine the workings of all the departments to see if the utmost possible is done to attract the interest of undergraduates. We wonder if the average instructor is as heartily interested in the welfare...
...should not the Faculty make a determined endeavor to arouse academic interest, too, rather than try to stunt the growth of a strong and healthy athletic interest...
...long baseball schedule and the usual football schedule, but when it comes to the question of preserving intercollegiate contests, they consider the advisability of eliminating the minor sports in that respect. Is it the desire of the Faculty that, contrary to their former broad principles, they wish to confine interest in athletics to a few sports? Is this not a narrow, selfish policy? Perhaps they believe that the club system will develop and the interest will continue in that form. But you cannot expect this to happen by quick action; it takes a long time for it to develop...