Word: interest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...best way to see and understand the state is to have an interest in its social problems. To cultivate a spirit of fraternity is the only way; not pity or the kind of fraternity that makes a man so sensitive that he can't bear to ride in a street car because there are women standing in it, but fraternity such as exists between farmers when they get together for a barn raising. Every contact with the average man is a way of teaching democracy...
...interest at Princeton seems to center now on the freshman squad. The eleven averages 165 pounds. The line averages 178 pounds, the backfield 157. The outlook on the whole appears to be the best in several years...
...Harvard man. And he has gone wrong. We should be glad that it is regarded as a matter of such astounding interest and universal import by our newspapers that a man who has ever felt the influence of Harvard should ever be less than the best...
...Military Science 2 by Professors H. L. Smyth, W. W. Atwood, and others on such subjects as the making of topographical maps, the interpretation of such maps in relation to soils, subsoils, rock structures, and underground water, and the topography and surface geology of Northern France. Of most interest, will be a series of lectures on photographic surveying, including surveying from aeroplanes. Practical work in the field, the reading of maps, and the study of models will be undertaken in connection with the lectures. In the elementary course, the first principles of the construction and use of topographic maps, with...
...plan is for groups to be formed in every dormitory entry where sufficient interest is shown, one member, in whose rooms the meetings will generally be held, acting as the group secretary. The discussions will be wholly informal and will be by men picked from the Faculty, Divinity School, and the Ministry. Each group will meet once a week for a half hour discussion, the evening and the time to be decided by the members...