Word: interested
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Professor James H. Brewster, of the University of Michigan, delivered an illustrated lecture of unusual interest in the Living Room of the Union last evening on "Characteristic Scenes in Chili, Bolivia and Peru." The slides used to illustrate the scenery and inhabitants of South America were excellent, especially those showing small towns with the show-capped Andes in the distance...
...whole, the number is praise worthy as a presentation of material clearly representative of undergraduate thought on a subject of immediate interest. The weakness of the stories is offset by the vigor of the verse; and Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez's poem alone is enough to give the number distinction
...supremacy. Neither team has been so hard pressed in any game that it has been obliged to use its full resources of strategy; consequently all the variations of modern football that can be depended on to gain ground will be used today. For these reasons, and for the interest that Harvard-Yale contests always have, it should be the best game of the year...
...Horace Fletcher, the greatest authority on dietetics, delivered a lecture of unusual interest on "Vital Economics" in the Living Room of the Union last evening...
...course of his lecture this evening, Mr. Fletcher will deal with vital economics in the whole field of human interest, all built on a solid basis of dietetic righteousness. His arguments for better health and efficiency will be based on his own experience and the results of experiments upon himself. Between the ages of 54 and 60 Mr. Fletcher recorded an increase of 21 per cent. in strength tests. Last month he registered 840 pounds on the spring lifting machine one-half of which is the average in gymnasium records. By means of a cinematograph arranged specially for this lecture...