Word: interested
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...current issue of the Advocate confirms two beliefs long held by some of us, that most if not all of the contents of a college paper should have some connection with college life or thought, and that there is available for such a paper material much more interesting than the average short story. Here is an Advocate without a story; every article bears on some matter of college interest. The result is a decidedly enteriaing number...
...executive, whom we may now call President Lowell, we extend our heartiest greetings. No one realizes better than he the magnitude of the task he is undertaking, and no one is better fitted to cope with the problems of the University today. Already his interest and influence have been shown in many ways, and great are his plans for reforms and changes to come. The Faculty, the alumni and the undergraduates respect him for his varied accomplishments in the past and have great confidence in his ability to meet the responsibilities of the future. In welcoming...
...should secure co-operation, and it should stimulate public spirit. These quotations from President Eliot, expressing his profound faith in a democratic society trained and enlightened as he would have it, are, I think, what will strike German readers most in the articles. They are also what will most interest the American public. A short account of the official arrangements at Harvard naturally contains much that is commonplace to us here, while on the other hand it passes over many things which belong to the true inwardness of the situation and which we think essential to the life and value...
...University for another dramatic organization, considering the number of plays annually presented by Harvard men. But apparently there was no reason for such doubt. The Dramatic club, as the sole organization aiming to produce serious dramatic works by graduates and undergraduates of the University and to arouse interest in acting these plays, has been so far remarkably successful. As everyone knows, "The Promised Land" was considered much more highly than most college productions, not only in the technique of the play itself but in the strength of its interpretation by the actors...
...branching out in a new direction, with four one-act plays, all of which have been written by men who have never had plays produced on the professional stage. The casts are not limited to those who took part in last fall's production, but show that the interest in the undertaking is spreading throughout the University. We wish the Dramatic Club all the success it deserves, and trust that next year it will continue as fortunately as it has begun...