Word: interested
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...mass meeting was scheduled to take place in the Union last evening to practice songs and cheers and encourage one of the best Freshman baseball teams of recent years. Exactly 42 Freshmen had enough interest in their nine to take the trouble of appearing at the meeting. Forty-two out of 630 men gave evidence of some appreciation of what the team has already done and gave it their support in the deciding contests that are at hand...
...little avail. The same spirit is evident in the small number of Seniors who join in at such an informal gathering as was held in the Union last evening in the slow response that answers the repeated calls of the class Secretary and Class Committee; in the half-hearted interest that is taken in nearly every class enterprise...
...worst vices, for whose protection they take money. By the ingenious device of fradulent letting of contracts, lucrative jobs are given to political retainers at unnecessary cost to the city. Laws requiring competitive bidding are easily circumvented. The purchase and sale of public franchises without regard to the interest of the city, and the neglect of public hygiene by incompetent Boards of Health, with a consequent high death rate and the taxes it makes necessary, complete the list of city evils, whose causes we shall now enumerate...
...present arrangement of having such a committee composed of all the "H" men in the sport together with the captains and managers of the four major teams has not proved a success. The meetings of this committee have been poorly attended and the individual members took little or no interest in the matter. A smaller committee composed of the captain, the manager, and three "H" men selected by the captain would be much more efficient...
Another big athletic day has arrived; a day without the concentration of interest that goes with the eventful football Saturday, but of equal importance because of the number of contests and the number of Harvard athletes who are taking part. A dual meet with Yale, in which a victory will mean permanent possession of the nine-year cup, in itself has created unprecedented enthusiasm, not only because of the trophy at stake, but because of the conflict of authorities in picking the probable winner. In addition the Harvard nine meets its Princeton rivals in the first of the championship games...