Word: interest
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...German student is of a different type from the Harvard type. The men are older and more mature, and are more devoted to their studies; and there is not the superabundant interest in outsider things that there is at Harvard. At Berlin this condition is more apparent then at other universities, for at Bonn, Heidelberg and the other provincial universities there is more esprit de corps. At none of the European universities is there any development of athletics corresponding to ours. Compulsory service in the army supplies in part the need of physical training, but the absence of athletics makes...
...take a trip outside of New England during the Easter recess, April '19 to 26 inclusive. The trip is expected to cover some 1500 miles, extending west to Buffalo and south to Washington, including concerts in size of the following cities, to be chosen according to the degree of interest manifested: in New York state--Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Utica, Oswegeo, Itchaca (at Cornell University), Poughkeepsie (at Vasar), and New York; Philadelphia and Pittsburg, AEL Baltimore, Md., and Washington, D. C. Should the interest warrant, the trip may be extended to include Cleveland, Cincinnati, or Detroit...
...main purpose of the trip is to arouse interest among the graduates of the nearby states in the musical activities at Harvard, in this, the centennial year of its existence. It has a threefold object in view, to stimulate interest in the Department of Music, and in the John Knowles Paine Memorial Building, which is being planned as musical headquarters for the University, and finally in the centennial celebration of the Pierian Sodality to be given by the centennial orchestra...
...Faculty point of view; for it will hardly be denied by the most ardent opponent of "two numerous intercollegiate contests" that in common fairness the large undergraduate body is entitled to know where it stands in fact, with respect to the sports in which it takes so deep an interest...
...events authority vests in the Athletic Committee, in whose loyalty to intercollegiate athletics we now have confidence. Such an authoritative expression of opinion as a Faculty vote worried our rivals nearly as much as it did us at the time. It is but an example of the never flagging interest of the Yale undergraduates in Harvard's affairs, and a tacit compliment not to be overlooked...