Word: interest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest, but assume no responsibility for sentiments expressed under this head...
...good to see that the undergraduates are taking an increasing interest in the athletic arrangements for the spring. With this and with the meeting of the athletic heads of Harvard, Princeton and Yale, there appears to be hope for the resumption of intercollegiate athletics--on a modified scale. The opposition to them so far has been based chiefly on the ill effects which they might bring with them. It was feared that if they were resumed, so also would the former extravagant basis be resumed; and that they would so preoccupy the undergraduates that the latter would partially or entirely...
...combine military work with organized athletics. Yale, with much longer hours of drill than ours, carried on a very successful rowing season in the fall. Harvard last year, while drilling five hours a week, managed to spend five days in every week at athletics without any loss of interest in either drill or sport...
...last fortnight Yale and Princeton have unofficially come out for intercollegiate athletics this spring. Harvard has yet to make known her position, but the vast majority of undergraduates are certainly heart and soul for some form of intercollegiate games. It has been well proved that to keep an interest in a sport it is necessary to meet rivals of a similar status and playing under similar eligibility rules. Harvard unofficially is unquestionably for the resumption of intercollegiate games...
...heighth of absurdity. Two facts argue strongly for intercollegiate games. The first is that the President of the United States and the leading men of the War Department advocate them. Second, the colleges which have maintained an intercollegiate system have not shown that their patriotic fervor or their interest in their nation's affairs has waned, while their athletics have been much more substantial and have done more good for a greater number...