Word: interest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Under present conditions it is almost or quite impossible to carry out schedules of games planned in times of peace. Our teams are broken up; the interest of our athletes is rightly transferred to other things than athletics; and there is here, as elsewhere, a general feeling that formal and important intercollegiate contests would be out of place at such a time as this. It is with great regret that we cancel our games. I have little doubt that your experience and your wishes are much like ours...
Pending the declaration of war by Congress, activities in the University are continuing very much as usual, although the tension of the situation has caused interest in everything but military organizations to lag. A certain tendency, however, to continue "business as usual" until definite word is received from Washington is apparent...
...course, the usual college activities have been greatly curtailed, and some of them, such as intercollegiate football and hockey matches, discontinued altogether. The interest in all college societies has greatly decreased as a result of the one overshadowing event which claims our attention. So far as the quality of the work is concerned there may not be very much difference between these days and those prior to the war, but on the whole, I think it may be said that there is not so much evidence of good scholarship today as there was under happier conditions...
...invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest, but assume no responsibility for sentiments expressed under this head...
...Davison for the planning and execution of the details of training so large a body of students in work of so serious a character. But by far the greatest, worthiest and most dashing effect of the task and its achievement must be that of inevitably broadening and intensifying musical interest and understanding in the minds of the participants themselves. And this undoubtedly means more to Dr. Davison than everything else put together