Word: interested
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Until this year, the debating interest within the University, outside of that shown in the debates with Yale and Princeton, has been centred on the interclass debates. It was decided this year, however, to discontinue the interclass debates and to encourage the formation of rival debating clubs. Accordingly the Agora and the Forum were organized as upper class debating clubs, drawing their membership from all students in the University except Freshmen, who still had the Freshman Debating Club. During the year, each of the clubs has had about 40 active members, who were divided into teams of four men each...
...invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest. The Crimson is not, however, responsible for the sentiments expressed in such communications as may be printed...
...conventionality. "The Year on the Track" is a brief summary by one who knows. "The Agassiz Centenary" reprints three speeches too charming to pass away with the daily newspaper. "The Adventures of a Dry Nurse" is probably too true a picture of a young schoolmaster's dormitory life. "Our Interest in the Outside World" makes a suggestion more sanguine than practical. "The Weld Boathouse" gives interesting facts in rather inferior form...
...objected that the concert to be given in Sanders Theatre as part of the program of Class Day week has been substituted and that Yard concerts would have detracted from the interest on this occasion. As far as the undergraduates are concerned a formal appearance in Sanders Theatre does not take the place of the open-air concerts, for the presence of the Glee and Mandolin clubs would have added a great deal to the informal singing that has been attempted this spring. Nor does it seem probable that the songs, no matter how well-known to the Harvard...
...intercollegiate track meet which begins today in the Stadium promises to be of unusual interest and deserves a large attendance. Not only is it the most important American amateur track event of the year, but the number of brilliant individual performers is far above the average. Michigan, one of the strongest western colleges, will be represented for the first time, and an opportunity will thus be afforded for comparing the East and West in this branch of athletics. Although Michigan has been entered in recent Pennsylvania carnivals, these came too early in the season to afford a fair comparison. Another...