Word: interesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Several Princeton graduates are preparing a "University Cruise" to visit the Azores, Gibralter and varous points of historic interest on the Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean. Daily lectures will be given by professors from the leading universities in this country...
There is a good lesson for the undergraduates of Harvard in the devoted interest with which the graduates are now giving their time and energy to a movement whose principal object is to make the life of those now resident in the University pleasanter, stronger and more united. Such service can be prompted only by an intense realization of what the University has done for them in their undergraduate days and a grateful desire to do what they can to make Harvard mean as much and more to their successors. A committee appointed from their number have made a careful...
...mean so much time taken away from the equally important prescribed work, as was inevitable before; and to the pecuniary inducement which alone might have appealed to a man will be added that of obtaining honoralbe recognition in a line of work in which he has a genuine, scholarly, interest...
...late years these prizes have not been valued as highly as they deserve. It is hoped that this year more interest in them will be taken and that there will be a large number of candidates. They are particularly useful for a man who intends to follow a literary career or become a teacher...
...Bennett Prize, offered for the best essay in English prose on some subject of American governmental domestic or foreign policy of contemporaneous interest, has not yet been awarded. It is open only to members of the senior class and to special students in their third or fourth year who have taken courses in Political Science and English Literature. This prize does not expect so much expert knowledge or depth of research as the others...