Word: interested
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...wish to draw the attention of college men to the necessity for more educated men in politics. The Intercollegiate Civic League, which has solicited these articles and forwarded them to a number of college papers for publication, is composed of 26 non-partisan college clubs, devoted to an interest in public affairs. The Harvard Political Club is a member of the League, and it was through this agency that the CRIMSON obtained these articles...
...problems of the American com- monwealth are today peculiarly those of the City. The issues that interest and agitate the public are increasingly local and the battle-grounds that have peculiar significance are those of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and other great centres of population...
...issue generally known as Municipal Ownership. The principle involved is not new as we have long owned and operated a variety of public utilities such as water supply; it is the proposed extension of the principle upon a scale of portentous magnitude that gives the issue its engrossing interest. The proposition is in itself characteristic of the age, for whether it be regarded as a real factor in the progress of civilization or only the mistaken dream of impracticable visionaries, it is entitled to the credit of a gentle birth. It is one of the phenomena of the groping fraternalism...
...University Library received yesterday from England several interesting facsimiles of documents relating to John Harvard. They are the will of Thomas Harvard, John Harvard's father, the will of his mother Katherine Yearwood, the record of the marriage of John Harvard in the Ringnier parish register, and several other papers of interest...
...certain incompleteness; the Episode is rather a design in a series--a thing necessary to the perfection of the whole, and yet complete in itself even when detached. In at least three out of the four contributions to the current Advocate, in which Incident is the motive, the suspended interest is admirably maintained. Mr. Schenck's "Paper Chase" Mr. Tinckom Fernandez's "Necessary Child," and Mr. Morgan's "Hongkong to New York," alike leave us not only with a desire for more, but with a certain childish resentment against those authors for not telling us what "happened" afterwards. Mr. Millet...