Word: interest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest collection of horns and antlers in this country, has recently been installed in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, at Harvard. This exhibition, which is of the highest interest to sportsmen and naturalists, in almost entirely from the collection of John Charles Phillips '99. There is only one other collection in America which compares with this group for range of variation in horn and antler among the species of hoofed animals, and that is at the New York Zoological Park...
...chatter is more apt to be incomprehensible to the educated than to the uneducated. To the Cornellian, academic duties serve as the background for the year's activities, and he is willing to let them stay as far in the background as his more vital enjoyments require. Be he interested in extra-curricular activities, the social whirl, or merely loafing, he allots his time so as to accommodate that interest. If something has to be neglected. It is his University work; he does not intend to let his studies, interfere with his education...
...Football interest, from the undergraduate standpoint, has not decreased since the days when I was in college, nor has it increased particularly. The immense growth of stadia during the last few years is due, rather, to excited alumni and a football-crazy public," said the Reverend Frederick May Eliot '11, of Saint Paul, Minnesota, preacher this week at Appleton Chapel, when asked to compare his impressions of Harvard at the present time with those received in the first decade of the century...
...tutorial system. I was a tutor in the year 1913-1914, and I know that this system has had much to do with the breaking down of the old attitude of enmity between student and instructor. It has enriched the contacts made, and induced students to show much more interest in their studies, especially in outside reading, which may or may not be suggested by the tutor...
...concerns a real political union, the consideration of the many race antagonisms, the lingual differences, the varieties of organization, the differences of interest; all these seem to me to make the plan seem to be nothing further than a high conception, not to be carried out definitely until some period in the far distant future. It is only a beautiful ideal towards which the world can progress; for the tremendous difficulties, cultural, religious, and historical, seem too great to be overcome during the present...