Word: interest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more promising than its myriad forerunners. Too numerous are names like Ford's Peace Ship and the Hague Conferences and the Neutrality Agreements. These, except the first, had at least a practical excuse for existence. There was hope for more humane conditions in war; there was interest in preserving the independence of the small nation. But all the treaties of civilization have not been able to outface primitive necessity. Why hope for anything better under the spire of a single morgue of past successes--and failures in the endless striving? At best the Peace Museum is a feeble hope...
...Hofer has been made an honorary curator of books on the Fine Arts and is soon to have an office in Widener Library. In the near future the collection will be installed in Mr. Hofer's office, which he hopes to make the center of interest for fine printing in the University...
...interest in connection with Mr. Hofer's donation is the recent publication by the Cygnet Press of a facsimile reprint in Italian of the "Life of St. Jerome" which has been taken from several copies of an edition of his "Letters" printed at Ferrara by Lorenzo de Rossi in 1497 which are now owned by G. P. Winship '93 and Mr. Hofer. The Cygnet Press was founded by Mr. Winshop and Mr. Hofer, both of whom are members of the Signet Club of Harvard. In accordance with its name, the Press has adopted a young swan as its emblem...
...that a donor's foresight is never quite equal to contemporary professional judgment in achieving a desired project, and may sometimes unduly limit such an achievement. Whatever may be the result of this definitely stipulated gift to Yale, this educational experiment is one that will be watched with great interest...
...today's CRIMSON, is but the third that has taken place since the inception of the plan, and already it has reached the dignity of an institution. The advantages of any scheme that helps develop an intelligent reading public are apparent. Equally obvious is the desirability of encouraging an interest in affairs of the day among a class that will supply many of the future leaders of the nation, and these two factors help explain the interest aroused by the contest...