Word: interest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that the Freshman will not be at a disadvantage in working against the upperclassmen. Those who come out for the news department will be required to cover the various activities, athletic and non-athletic, of the University and also to obtain such outside news as may be of interest to the undergraduates. The work of the business competition will consist in soliciting advertisements with a certain amount of office work. The candidates for the editorial staff will be required to write a certain number of editorials each week on questions of particular moment or general interest. This will...
...authorities have not hindered the practical training, but they have seen the absurdity of trying to secure it in a very restricted space. To make soldiers perfect in the fundamentals has been the aim of winter drill, but this cannot be obtained under conditions which provoke a loss of interest. The change is a most sensible one, for men will be learning something new instead of trying to maintain proficiency already secured...
...Harvard Overseers, in fact, are, above all, men of conspicuous social standing; the proportion of intellectuals among them is slight, and many regret it. This merely expresses the fact that the dominant concerns of the graduate body are not of the intellectual order. They deeply love thier University, interest themselves in its prosperity, provide for its material support with the utmost generosity; but in the memories of youth which attach them to it the intellectual interest plays only a part that is effaced...
...been said in some newspapers which claimed to be quoting one of our athletic heads, that interest in rowing here was entirely negligible. Judging by numbers, this is doubtless true. But it is obviously hard to get men out during the winter to row on the monotonous machines when there is small prospect of there being any crew worth while making. Everybody says that during war time it is the duty of the colleges to keep the maximum number of men at athletics in order to improve their physical condition. By dropping intercollegiate athletics so suddenly the colleges have gone...
Runners representing the University on its informal and Freshman teams will take part in five events of the 29th annual Boston Athletic Association meet which will start at the Mechanics Building, Boston, tonight at 7.30 o'clock. The University entries for the meet total 41. The chief interest of the University is centered in the races of the two relay teams representing it, the first one being the annual Yale-Harvard Freshman dual race and the second a contest between the informal relay four and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Freshman team which will race the Eli yearlings will...