Word: interested
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...commission, under the direction and with the approval of the Senate and the House of Representatives, plans to conduct in the State House commemorative observances of the first sitting of the General Court. This celebration will be of particular interest to members of the University, who will remember that Harvard College was founded in 1636 by a vote of the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who voted 400 pounds to the establishment of a college. Consequently any celebration of the inauguration of parliamentary administration, centered as it was in the General Court, is definitely related to the early...
...observance of the tercentenary emphasizes the introduction of self-government and civil liberties into the future United States. The College, which has contributed so much to the intellectual and political progress of the state and the nation, cannot fall to be one of the chief sources of interest to the hundreds of thousands who are expected to visit the state during the coming summer...
Then at eight o'clock there is a toss up between the Symphony concert in Sanders Theatre and a lecture on "English Schools Old and New" by Mr. Stephen P. Cabot in Phillips Brooks House. The Vagabond admits a keen interest in the British schools which have produced so many centuries of leadership in all the branches of public and private life. So he is faced with a difficult choice between Bach and Schumann or Eton and Winchester...
...Hemenway Gymnasium on Friday at 8.30 o'clock. This is the first such demonstration at Harvard and is being held at the suggestion of Rene Peroy, the Harvard fencing coach, for the purpose of enlightening the student body on the merits of the sport, and consequently to raise some interest and backing for the coming winter meets...
Lectures of interest...