Word: interest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest...
...invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest...
...principal reasons advanced by the Faculty in favor of cutting down the number of intercollegiate contests is a belief that intracollegiate athletics, giving an opportunity for every man to indulge in "sport for sport's sake," cannot exist beside the overwhelming interest in games between the colleges. They also believe that the undergraduates are not unanimously opposed to a curtailment of schedules. Every opportunity that is lost to disprove these beliefs helps just so much to defeat our own aims...
This brings us back to the now all-absorbing subject. Without going any further into the arguments against the recent Faculty vote, we wish to compare our present situation, merely as a matter of interest, with one that the undergraduates faced in the spring of 1884. At that time the Faculty passed a vote, among other things, forbidding the employment of professionals to coach any Harvard teams. This action caused the greatest feeling at the time. We do not wish to take up the merits of the question nor compare it with the present situation. It is sufficient...
...invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest...