Word: interesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...come. The speaker then went on to show many specific evils that actualty exist, especially in the congested portions of our large cities and in mining camps as a direct result of the influx of these illiterate people. They have learned to distrust all government and to take no interest in political affairs. When they do vote they do so in a way debasing to American citizenship. They become fraudulently naturalized and give their votes to the party offering the highest bribe...
Although there have been no lack of entries in recent years for the Boylston Prize elocution competitions, the small attendance of college men at the final contests, seems to show that anything like general interest in them has subsided...
...Ward Nicholas Boylston, these competitions were among the more important events in each college year. The ushers were always appointed from the Junior, by the First Marshal of the Senior Class, and served also as Junior ushers on Class Day. In fact there was not only general interest shown, but every effort was made to keep that interest alive; and, although it is not now realized by the undergraduates, many of the older inhabitants of Cambridge and Boston still watch for the notices of Boylston Prize Contests...
...forthcoming number of the Advocate contains four short stories, several verses and the usual complement of editorials and College Kodaks. The verses are all unpretentious and the chief interest in the number centres in the fiction. Of the four stories the most entertaining from a college point of view is "The Surprises of Sanders" by H. P. Huntress '99. The plot is rather improbable but there is just enough surprise in it to give it justification. Strange to say the real heroine of the tale plays a very small part, and the reader is left wondering why she was introduced...
...Mackeigan's Last Hope" by R. P. Bellows '99, is skilfully written and interesting in plot. The writer leaves the ordinary path of the college story and strikes out in a road of his own. The tale is perhaps best described as a character sketch in which the main figure is shown under varying conditions. The reader's interest continually increases until the very end when the author breaks off abruptly and leaves the climax to the imagination. The effect of this style is good and places the sketch above the ordinary run of college stories...