Word: interested
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest...
...best, for this University has always stood for freedom of thought and action. But certain observances which exert an unconscious influence upon all who live under them are not inconsistent with true freedom. When opportunities for these arise, let us not be ashamed to display an interest in them, whether the interest is prompted by mere sentiment or by a deeper realization of that which lies behind the public expression...
...importance, debating, is treated by Mr. E. R. Lewis. He clearly shows that undergraduate dislike of debaters is based upon misunderstanding; and that the Harvard system seeks to produce no ranting, narrow, or insincere orators, but speakers who are temperate, well-informed, and honest. His arguments, though they will interest the serious student, will hardly convince those whose aversion to any form of intellectual contest has made debating unfashionable. These, who are the very ones to be persuaded, may possibly be won by the formation of new debating societies, or by some ingeniously contrived rewards of a speedy and obvious...
...days pass by after another defeat by Yale there seems to be little abatement in the discussion of the football situation. Criticism of what has been done in the past and suggestions for the future are without end. They give ample proof that football is not an interest which influences players alone, but one which fires the whole University. Some think that the importance of football is exaggerated, and they have strong arguments with which to back up their ideas. The great weight of opinion, however, seems to bear upon the fact that we are out to win, and that...
...endeavor to publish as many as possible of the views on this subject, in the hope that they may be useful to those in authority as well as to any one who is doubtful as to how to formulate an opinion on a subject which appeals to him through interest rather than through actual experience...