Word: interest
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...process of thought on subjects most remote from the mind in its early years is in no way different from that we have employed many times on familiar subjects. Their greatest desire and most beneficial service is to infuse every mind coming within their reach with as great an interest as possible in the subject to be studied, leaving as a secondary consideration the learning the details of that subject...
While other young men are eager to acquire a sufficient knowledge of trade to allow them to assume a business air and talk volubly of the rise and fall of stocks, the average collegiate is gloriously indifferent to it. Such topics awaken no interest in his breast. It makes no difference to him what gold is quoted at, and he never troubles himself to ascertain. He is told of the panic, of the very dull times, etc., but to no purpose; a panic is something of which he has no clear conception, and of dull times his idea...
...quarterly magazine, - The Cornell Times and The Cornell Review. Of these the Review is by far the larger, and, we must say, the more vigorous. From the Salutatory we learn that it is conducted by the literary societies of the University. The articles are all well written, interesting, deep, and spirited. Though we shall always welcome its appearance, and wish it all success, we very much doubt whether that success, as the Review claims, "will have accomplished a reform which is needed at other institutions of learning as well as our own." Experience has shown that long articles, however well...
...success of rowing in America that a good course be selected this coming year, and one which will not have to be changed again; for every change causes many inconveniences and drawbacks. This question of choice should be carefully considered, and if what is here said can provoke any interest on the subject, it will have answered its purpose...
...considered. Let not the decision be left until the spring freshets, and then given to a committee who are more pleased with a course if they are driven round town in carriages and lunched than by the merits of the course itself. Let us take advantage of the present interest, and remove all obstructions to a sport which is to strengthen the American character as well as American muscle...