Word: interested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harpers Magazine for June, according to an advance announcement, contains an article of particularly timely interest for this season of the year. Frederic F. van de Water, author and literary columnist of the New York Evening Post, has written a story entitled "The Saturnalia of College Reunions". Mr. van de Water attended New York University and Columbia...
...Oregon '31, and state amateur champion was the originator of the plan to promote intercollegiate golf through the interest aroused by such an experiment as playing a golf match by telegraph. His idea is for Harvard to chose a course which corresponds as nearly as possible to the features of the Eugene. Oregon, Country Club. The Eugene Course measures 6425 yards long, is par 72, has very few bunkers, and has its second nine laid out through trees. By chance the Belmont Springs Course, where the Harvard team plays regularly is greatly similar to this, with the exception that...
...Interest in basketball has been rapidly increasing among both undergraduates and graduate students. During the past year the Hemenway floor was in virtually continuous use from 2 o'clock in the afternoon until nine-thirty, with an hour out for the corrective exercise class: The fact that the University team uses this court for its regular practice every evening and several afternoons a week materially reduces its availability for the members of the graduate league and what is even more important the class teams. During the past season this latter group were allowed but two practice sessions of an hour...
...plans for next year will have to involve a reduction in the time allotted to graduate students in Hemenway in order to give the class teams more opportunity for practice. This seems absolutely necessary in view of the growing undergraduate interest in the sport but it will work a very real hardship on a class of men who find little enough chance as it is for exercise and recreation...
...investments in either stocks or bonds, that this capitalist has put his money not into stocks, not into bonds, but into the call money market- "the safest form of investment known in this country." Furthermore, the more the Reserve Board scolds and harries the Stock Market, the higher the interest rates on call money go and the more attractive becomes the call money market as a destination for surplus funds. Thus the Reserve Board has, against its own intentions, continually forced money into call loans and away from other employment...