Word: interest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...sixty two of our classmates out of 620 voted at the election last November. I can conceive of no very momentous reason why we should not double our Sophomore record, or do even better. We have nine hours in which to register our choices. Therefore, let us prove our interest in our class by taking a few minutes to vote...
...successful dance, and other class entertainments. Our President will be honored by membership in the Student Council, and there is no telling what may arise to test the judgment and ability of our leaders. Moreover, will they not assume the duties of their offices with greater pleasure and interest if they are the choice of the whole class? We all know what public indifference means. Let us have none of it, but rather let us all co-operate by asking our classmates whether they have done their duty, by reminding one another that today is election...
...while we give great credit to the team and to its coaches for victory over Dartmouth, it is to the game next Saturday that we look with greater interest. This year the Harvard-Yale game is to be a real championship contest between two teams that stand clearly above all the other teams of the year. As the two elevens are physically equal, the issue will depend on the more effective application of brain-work on one side or the other...
...judge by the size of the Freshman parade to Soldiers Field yesterday, football enthusiasm and class loyalty are still dormant in the members of 1913. The class will never have a better test of its mettle than this afternoon, for it will mean a sacrifice of self-interest to stand on the side-lines of the Freshman field while the University game is being played. But the first duty of Freshmen is to their class team, and enthusiastic support this afternoon will double the chances of victory...
Such exhibitions of disorderly conduct as the students in Economics I have lately been guilty of ought to be beneath the dignity of Harvard men. Those few who are inciting these disturbances are spoiling one of the most useful courses in College for all who have a real interest in the lectures. They are creating bad precedents not only for this one course, but for all others to which their lawless spirit may be communicated. Men are sent to college to learn, not to horse their instructors...