Word: interest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...particular interest to the many Harvard yachtmen will be this new book setting forth the history and romance of the more than 200 lighthouses and lightships of the New England coast, scattered between West Quoddy Head and the entrance to Long Island Sound. A knowledge of the stories of the lighthouses will add greatly to the pleasure to be derived from a sail along these shores...
...appearance of war books in greater numbers on the market, the enthusiastic reception of war plays, all point to an increasing interest in this subject on the part of the public. The first revulsion of feeling which followed the world war rapidly faded, and the victorious nations still maintain their armies and still build their navies. But in all this time there has been an ever increasing undercurrent of feeling. From the Hague Conference down through the League of Nations and the World Court, clearer has come the cry for peace; and the nations of the world, weary and sick...
...future at Yale all elections for committees in charge of traditional activities must muster two-thirds of the class as voters if the custom is to be continued. The ruling provides both a check upon undergraduate feeling toward the custom and a means of eliminating it if interest is lacking...
...plan advanced in the school paper to introduce a combination of the concentration and tutorial systems into the Choate School curriculum, while commendable because of the interest shown in individual scholarship, is a rather far step from the purpose of the secondary school. According to the outline proposed, the Choate News advocates a modification to some degree of the Harvard tutorial system, placing at the disposal of the high-ranking student the advantage of preparing special work aside from classroom courses under supervision of the masters. The project is similar to the Harvard system in that it allows sufficient opportunity...
...idealists who place the House Plan before unwilling eyes must realize that its success or failure rests on the simple and prosaic custom of eating. Their decisions will be awaited with interest, because it means either regimentation or freedom, and paternalism or "laissez faire". The ultimate disposition of fraternities and clubs, moreover, cannot be solved until more illuminating information is forthcoming as to what the dining halls will actually mean. Until this much-anticipated illumination assumes definite shape, discussion appears to be nothing more than abstract the-orizing, which will conveniently occupy any free afternoon...