Word: interest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...given at Soldiers Field on Thursday and Friday afternoons, March 7 and 8. The competition in the meet will be only between members of the University, class and dormitory team A large number of events are on the schedule, including a few novice races. Also, if sufficient interest is shown, there will be a competition in pole vaulting. Blue books have been placed in the Freshman dormitories, Leavitt and Peirce's and the Union for men to sign who intend to take part in the carnival...
...Freshmen so far have shown more interest than the upperclassmen, a considerable number of promising candidates reporting for the first light work out. Although a long schedule is being planned for the 1921 team, no positive announcements have been made, save that the Worcester Academy game, recently announced as arranged for March 2, is fixed for March 16, and it is certain that a meet will be staged May 25 with Yale at New Haven. Plans are also being laid for a Freshman intercollegiate meet under the auspices of the I. C. A. A. A. A. to take place about...
Governor McCall has been a hearty advocate of "Smileage" ever since the idea was taken over by the Government in an attempt to relieve the necessity for amusement at the camps and cantonments. He appointed a special council for the sole purpose of stimulating interest in "Smileage" throughout the State of Massachusetts, and he will take up the subject from the point of view of the civil government...
...lighten this gloomy routine, to maintain a close and hearty interest in this body of American citizens detailed for special duty, to support them not merely with munitions of war but with those supplies in which we can put pure admiration, our gratitude and our love, is our duty-a duty which we should grasp as a privilege. Our men will be none the less warriors because we remember them with letters and gifts. They are carrying our burdens, upholding our honor-and I for one desire to express as best I can the deep personal obligation...
...intercollegiate contests in spring sports, athletics once more are established on a sound basis. Baseball, track and crew may now start, assured that their season of practice will culminate in meeting opponents of similar status. The uncertainty as to the awarding of insignia forms a novel test of undergraduates' interest in exercise per se, for the men who have slaved through weeks of hated labor to wear the envied "H" will now be eliminated. Only those who enter these sports for the enjoyment or the benefit derived from them will be attracted. It is now up to the student body...