Word: interest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Henry Kemble Oliver '52, who, unknown to the public, had endowed the Department of Hygiene at the University with several hundred thousand dollars a few years ago, died last Saturday, October 25. Dr. Oliver had all through his life been very interested in matters of student health at this University. This interest led him in his later years to give his entire fortune to the establishment of the chair of Hygiene, now occupied by Dr. Roger Irving...
...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...
...will be sent to the leading preparatory schools of the country to arouse interest in Princeton. Others will speak before boys' clubs and Y. M. C. A. classes on subjects of general interest. The plan of the association is to develop its speakers before sending them out. The active membership will be composed of 15 Seniors and about 50 Juniors and Sophomores will be admitted as associate members. The last will be divided into sections, according to the line of work they wish to follow, and each section will be in charge of a member of the Faculty...
...your issue of the 23d, your editorial writer bewails the fact that so small a number of ballots were cast in the elections of last Tuesday, and goes on to say that "Such a disgraceful lack of interest in class affairs must surely arouse the indignation of all undergraduates." In view of your published figures this statement is rather absurd. Do you desire that the 1566 recalcitrant students who did not vote should become fiercely indignant with themselves, or do you think that the 389 faithful voters constitute the entire body of undergraduates...
...frankly, what reason is there for anyone to become indignant at this lack of interest? Under the present system of choosing officers it is inevitable. The candidates stand for no platform, there are no conflicting issues, so that the prospective voter is not able to choose an officer because of what he represents. Nor may he be guided by some one man's special fitness for the office, because almost any man would be able to discharge suitably the not onerous duties of a class officer. So the whole matter becomes one of friendship. Only a man's personal friends...