Word: interesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...president also desired to show his interest in the advanced university work which is developing so rapidly at Columbia, and accordingly eight university scholarships, to be known as the President's university scholarships, are to be established. Two will be awarded in the autumn of 1896. and thereafter two will be added annually until there are eight in all. These scholarships are to be annual...
...often suggested that college dailies give more than due proportion in their columns to athletic news thereby misleading the public as to the real interests of students. There is no disputing the fact that a willful public can find through the dailies some grounds for the belief that athletics are the first interest in colleges of today; but we fear that this is a misinterpretation to which the papers must always be more or less exposed, if for no other reason than because they are published daily...
...detail of progress in intellectual pursuits can not be followed; it is only on the final achievement that the interest of outsiders can fasten. Should the entire college devote itself to scholarly work, there would be no need for a daily. News might all be delegated to a monthly publication which should merely review all notable contributions to the intellectual life of the college. The more significant intellectual work is done by the individual; it can not be organized; but the news for a college daily must be drawn from the organized activities of the college. Of these the athletic...
...interest in the game goes, there can be no fear; any form of rivalry between Harvard and Yale is sure to attract eager attention. It is well, though, to urge the necessity for financial support. The management here is at present wholly without funds, and the demands of collectors should therefore be willingly met. The receipts from the game itself are not to be counted upon entirely for covering expenses. Ninety-six men will surely realize that any delay on their part in fulfilling to the uttermost the conditions which have been made with Yale, is not to be tolerated...
...characters. One longs to know the man himself apart from his stage disguise. To most persons this is unfortunately impossible; but an informal address will come as near to satisfying them as anything short of personal acquaintance can. Mr. Jefferson has very recently been received with enthusiastic interest in a similar address at Yale, and Harvard men will take pleasure in showing themselves no less appreciative of their good fortune...