Word: interesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...What now would be think to be the proper attitude of a professor of Law or of History, whose opinion is sure to carry weight, when he sees the President and Congress threatening war against a nation of our own flesh and blood, with whom we have every conceivable interest to live in peace, while war with them would mean putting back human civilization for half a century, and all on account of petty dispute between two nations in which he firmly believes we have no right whatever to interfere? Shall he join in the hue and cry and encourage...
...lecture is open to all members of the University, and, thought it will have a special interest for the members of the debating clubs, yet, at this time of remarkable activity in debating at other colleges, the subject can not fail to attract general attention. Professor Baker is, moreover, by his experience in this work, particularly fitted to point out the merits and the faults of Harvard speakers...
During the year 1895-96, Mr. Copeland will give a number of lectures on English literature, of which the subjects and the dates will be announced in the University Calendar. The chief object of these lectures is to stimulate interest in literature, and particularly to encourage critical discussion of such matters of literary consequence as may from time to time arise. A secondary object is to suggest lines of reading to such members of the University as desire some knowledge of English Literature without the minute study demanded by the regular courses of instruction...
...Memorial Society starts out well in obtaining four speakers so well fitted to speak about Harvard in the four decades chosen, as Colonel Higginson, President Eliot, Mr. Ropes, and Mr. Storey. The period is one of natural interest and there are few of us who are so familiar with it as we ought...
...next intercollegiate fencing competition which takes place in May, 1896, will arouse greater interest this year owing to the entrance of the Naval Academy at Annapolis; it is much to be regretted that West Point could not accept the invitation to compete extended to them by the fencing clubs of Harvard and Columbia...