Word: interest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...MATCH game of base-ball was played on Jarvis Field on Monday last, between two Junior Nines, one selected from Brown's Club Table, and the other from Bixby's. The game was full of interest and excitement, and showed much individual good play. It was called at the end of the seventh inning, when the score stood: Bixby, 10; Brown, 7. Mr. C. T. Tyler was captain of the former, and Mr. H. H. Crocker of the latter Nine...
...interest evinced in the Gray Heliotypes on their first appearance does not seem to decline. More than four thousand prints have been already sold by the Curator alone...
...some department. In so large a University as ours, and in a transition state besides, it would be strange if there should not be some ground afforded for fault-finding. But the very fact that a student criticises the methods in vogue here shows that he has an interest, albeit not a lively one, in the conduct of the college and in his own studies. Persons rarely indulge in criticism unless their taste and good judgment are offended; nor do students care a straw how recitations are conducted when they have nothing at stake. True, in many cases grumbling...
...student will not be so hard pressed that, in despair of learning anything, he aims only to avoid a condition; nor will there be found a man in the whole of any class so stupid or irredeemably lazy that an instructor cannot, by this method, engage somewhat of his interest and attention. Short lessons and clear summaries would do much to make many of our recitation-rooms other than that they are, sleeping-rooms for all who do not expect to be called up. Nor would the professor, it seems to the writer, find the labor of summarizing each lesson...
...Paul Clifford," I had not this book in mind, nor was I, as the author of "Lord Lytton" insinuates, totally ignorant of the story of "Eugene Aram" when I made the above-quoted comment. On the contrary, I then considered, as I still do, that this story, whose interest culminates in the unravelling of a mysterious murder, in which a long chapter is devoted to the trial, and another to the confessions of Aram; a story in which such men as Hauseman and Clark play leading parts, - such a story, I say, is not entirely exempt from the charge that...