Word: interest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...doubtless be impossible to bring this organization at once into a position as strong as that of the Cosmopolitan Club of Cornell. The inertia of a new idea will operate to retard its progress, as well as the absorption of the natural leaders of such a move by other interests. But, if started, this society should not occupy the position of numerous other bodies which have monthly smokers as the only excuse for their existence. It should be so conducted that newly-arrived foreigners will feel that an active interest is felt in them by more than the College office...
...invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest...
Such a situation is far from desirable, as it attaches an importance to football all out of proportion to its real value. It demands practically the exclusive attention of the squad for more than two months, and for almost as long absorbs the interest of a vast crowd of sideline shouters; and it disregards the real object of College sport--a general participation in healthful exercise for recreation and larger acquaintance. It is worth while considering whether the whole system of athletics should not be changed, either to one completely intra-college, or, as suggested by Mr. R. A. Derby...
...football situation must be regulated by the extremes which the writer offers. The many advantages of intercollegiate athletics so far outweigh the minor objections which are made to them that we need hardly review the arguments which justify and call for their continuance. Suffice it to say that the interest which intercollegiate contests arouse will never accompany any intra-college sports, no matter how carefully their status is worked out, and, if anyone objects to them on the grounds of too much enthusiasm, he surely would not care to see the indifference which would result from a few years...
...present we can dismiss that article with the statement that it advocates a Utopia--in the opinion of the author--which we are not ready to enjoy, and which is so practically inconsistent with the present sentiments of undergraduates and graduates that its theories should be of interest merely as conjectures...