Word: interest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most important objects of compulsory physical training is to interest Freshmen in some form of outdoor sport. Exercise in a gymnasium is good, but is does not fill the place of a competitive game played in the open air. Mere development of the muscles during one year is not what is wanted; a real interest must be aroused so that men will regard their exercise not as an unpleasant task required of them, but as a real pleasure which they will continue throughout their college course...
...were going through again, I'd work harder," and the attitude common among undergraduates: "It isn't the things you learn in college, it's the friends you make, etc." Friends are a normal accompaniment of normal living; it cannot be denied that studies should be the main interest of a college man. The specialization of college athletics and the keenness of college competitions are results, not causes, of the lack of interest in studies. The contrast between the man who works because he is afraid of the weekly test and the man who works because he is interested...
...Crimson invites all men in the University to submit signed communications of timely interest. It assumes no responsibility, however, for sentiments expressed under this head and reserves the right to exclude any whose publication would be palpably inappropriate...
...have been following with increasing interest and decreasing sympathy the communications of Mr. Fairbanks. In Thursday's edition I see that Mr. Fairbanks is supported by two others...
...Beta Kappa Society was founded at William and Mary College in 1776, and is the oldest Greek letter fraternity in America. It aims to gather together those men whose first interest is in scholarship and intellectual pursuits. The Harvard chapter, established in 1779, comprises among its undergraduates presidents such men as John Quincy Adams 1787, James Russell Lowell '38, Edward Everett Hale '39; Oliver Wendell Holmes '29, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41; and among its orators and poets Charles Sumner '30, Wendell Phillips '31, William Cullen Bryant '59, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow '59, Henry Ward Beecher 1821, Ralph Waldo Emerson...