Word: interested
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Winston Churchill will speak, under the auspices of the Political Club, on some political subject of timely interest in the Living room of the Union, this evening at 8 o'clock...
...know of what I speak. This is due to a variety of causes, the chief of which is the egotism of the human animal itself. But I can tell you for your comfort that the chief cure for it is to interest yourself, to lose yourself, in some issue not personal to yourself--in another man's trouble or, preferably, another man's joy. But if the dark hour does not vanish, as sometimes it doesn't; if the black cloud will not lift, as sometimes it will not; let me tell you again for your comfort that there...
...message to deliver to a university which I love, to the young men who have the future of their country to mold, I would say with all the force at my command: Do not be smart. If I were not a doctor of this university with a deep interest in its discipline, and if I did not hold the strongest views on that reprehensible form of amusement known as 'rushing,' I would say that whenever and-whenever you find one of your dear little playmates showing signs of smartness in his work, his talk, or his play, take him tenderly...
...after the heat of the game, that you draw breath and watch your fellows for a while. Sooner or later you will see some man to whom the idea of wealth as mere wealth does not appeal, whom the methods of amassing that wealth do not interest, and who will not accept money if you offer it to him at a certain price...
...primary object of the conference is to present and discuss important questions of religion and social service of interest to college men, and to develop the religious life and interest in philanthropic work of the Eastern colleges and schools through an interchange of ideas and contact with leaders of thought in the field. Delegates are quartered in tents and dormitories and a baseball series, a tennis tournament, a track meet, a big fourth of July celebration, followed by an enormous bonfire, and inspiring religious meetings addressed by leaders of philanthropic and religious thought are some of the creatures...