Word: interest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Dates were considered for the spring intercollegiate contests in the different branches of sport and the question of temporary modification of the eligibility rules on account of war conditions was also taken up. A number of other matters of athletic interest were touched on in the course of the conversation, but as no definite decision was reached on any point there is no further announcement to make...
Candidates for the Freshman soccer team, which will have a spring schedule, will report at the Locker Building to acting Captain J. M. Maloney '22 tomorrow at 3. If enough interest is shown in this sport the team will be coached by R. M. da Rocha, Unc., who was captain of the Oxford Preparatory School team in England...
...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...
...cannot but wonder whether the proposed early specialization will give a college man that subtlety of mind and ease of adjustment which a wider distribution seeks to accomplish. We question whether a one-track mind would not result, an intellect which has but one interest and one accomplishment. What the University seeks to develop by its laissez faire policy is the versatility of mind which will embrace many fields, which eagerly gives ear to new opinions, which analyses, and holds dear its criterion of right and wrong...
...awakened in the American people an interest in geography, an appreciation of the significance of geographic factors in the control of industrial and commercial life. Every man interested in large business enterprises should be trained in geography; every man who expects to travel in foreign lands or to enter government service should understand the geography in his own country and that of the world...