Word: interest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean Matthews had high praise for the religious organization here. "The morning service in Memorial Chapel are very beautiful," he declared. "They contain a unique spirit of devotion. I have also been impressed with the services at Yale, and with the live interest in religion which I found at Princeton; but here there is a sincerity, a consecration of purpose,--an atmosphere which I can only describe as the manifestation of a true spirit of worship. Doubtless it is partly due to the beautiful building in which the services are held...
Police showed little interest, however, and cars bearing huge anti-Plan E signs were allowed to park much nearer the booths than the legal limit...
...best known. Among economists, Indo-China is equally famous as one of the world's worst-run colonies. For a year young Malraux dug through ruins, crawled over fallen temples which reeked with the decayed jungle vegetation of eight centuries, collected Khmer statuary, then abruptly lost interest in Indo-China's past, became interested in Indo-China's present. Working with a group known as the Young Annam League, which fought for dominion status for Indo-China, he was soon in trouble. He had collected Khmer statuary which the authorities insisted should be turned over...
Loeffler's "A Pagan Poem" is of special interest also. From 1885 and 1903 he lived in this vicinity and held a post as second principal violin in the Boston Symphony Orchestra, after which he resigned to devote himself to composition. He was born in Mulhouse, Alsace, in 1861, coming to America as a young composer-violinist. He is one of the earliest exponents of Impressionism in America, but his feeling for melodic line is too strong to identify him exclusively with this French school. He exerts in his writing a fascinating play of orchestral color and unusual rhythmic invention...
Such a radical enlargement of the debating fold is ambitious and if it is to succeed, it will require not only the active interest of those 192 men who have already expressed a desire to talk, but also spectator-sympathy from all other students. When the curtain has risen, the play will "take" only if the audience acts, feels, and participates with the cast...