Word: interest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Fearing died suddenly while attending a Red Cross meeting in Newport on May 26. Always a man of great vigor aur vitality, he plunged with a will into all forms of war relief work. His most distinguishing characteristic was his active interest in life, an interest indicated by his public offices in Newport and in Rhode Island, by his unrivalled collections of books, and by the long list of clubs with which he was connected. Prominent among the latter was the Crolier Club of New York, of which he was one of the earliest members and a constant and most...
...invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest, but assume no responsibility for sentiments expressed under this head...
...Auslander invokes "the high, unheeding heart of beauty" melodiously; then, with a sense of return to actualities we read "Runaway," by Malcolm Cowley. Here is poetry stripped of every decoration. The technique is clever, but concealed; and the whole interest is thrown on the psychology of the country boy running away to make his fortune in the city...
Although other details of the organization for the summer camp are not to be announced until later, these appointments will take care of the problems of immediate interest. From the point of view of the undergraduate who is training here it will be reassuring to know that his instruction and the enforcement of the regulations that concern him are not to be in the hands of a group of men, many of whom may have had less military experience than he himself, but rather of those who have directed the work of the Corps on Soldiers Field, in barracks...
...track season opened unofficially with the annual mid-winter carnival which extended from March 8 to March 13. As a result of the inclement weather as well as undergraduate indifference the carnival was only sparsely attended, and no great amount of interest was aroused by the results. The most striking feature of the meet was the unusually prominent part played by the Freshmen, who furnished a majority of the winners...