Word: interest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plan instituted last year for promoting discussion and thought among the students on present day political, economic, and social questions was renewed this year with equal success and interest. Weekly Discussion Groups, led by a professor or instructor, have been held since the beginning of the year under the direction of the Christian Association of Brooks House with entirely satisfactory results. A series of discussion meetings, called "A Forum for Harvard Men," were begun on February 11, when Professor Wiener talked to 160 students on "Bolshevism" and subsequent meetings were addressed by Professor Munro, Professor Carver, President Eliot and others...
What promises to be one of the most prominent activities of the Association was initiated in March in the reorganization of the Harvard Mission in the form of a committee to arouse and maintain interest among the undergraduates and alumni in opportunities for foreign reconstruction work. The project was initiated as a result of the visit of Dr. R. M. Story '08, head of the Y. M. C. A. in Siberia, to Cambridge on March...
...valuable work as Associate Graduate Secretary; to the members of the War Cabinet, whose time and energy enabled Brooks House to carry on its good work in a most difficult period; and to my own associates of the Executive Cabinet for their faithful co-operation and interest in the year's success. In commenting upon the situation, I can make but one suggestion and repeat the appeal that is almost annually made for wider and more active interest in the work of the Association among the whole undergraduate body, for on this alone depends the success or failure...
...might be appropriate to add that these books may be drawn by any student of the University, for two weeks and renewed on the expiration of that time. These books are of great value and interest, particularly to those men who are in charge of boys clubs and it would be well to publish this fact more broadly...
...present there will be four Freshman club crews divided into two Junior Thayer, and two Junior Eliot eights. The tentative make-up of the crews has been decided upon by Coach Manning, but there will be changes from time to time as better men show up; and if enough interest is shown two more eights will be formed...