Word: interesting
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...cricket, and lacrosse teams, the junior and the freshman nines all have games, while the fencing club has a match with Columbia, and the Whist Club settles its tournament with Yale. Of all these, the annual University track athletic games on Holmes Field will have a monopoly of the interest in Cambridge. We are glad that there is no other athletic event of importance to distract attention from them...
...systematic courses of lectures, two summer meetings have been held, at which lectures were given, and which have been of great benefit. Many class courses have also been given. One great aid to the work of the society has been its publications, which have helped materially in directing public interest along fruitful lines. The two national conferences held in Philadelphia accomplished valuable results for the movement...
...encouragement to the conversation of the audience. This will be under the direction of Professor Parker. The music will be given by a large chorus of male voices, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra of about fifty pieces, which has already done excellent work, and the organ. Perhaps the most interesting number will be the ode which Edmund Clarence Stedman '53, has written for the occasion, and which Professor Parker has set to music. Immediately before the conferring of degrees, the large chorus and the audience will sing "Gaudeamus," "Integer Vitae," and probably "Lauriger Horatius." The opening and closing pieces will...
...fame of the football hero; yet while neither may have a place in the undergraduate's enthusiasms, each is awarded a share in his respect which is denied to the mere athlete. Football, baseball, any of the sports, is more exciting and attracts a more intense interest than can fairly be asked for intellectual work. No outsider can follow the processes which lead to literary or scientific success, or can feel with him who wins it all the eager joy of victory. It is difficult to appreciate and generally impossible to grow enthusiastic over the competition in which the brain...
Track athletics are now absorbing much attention at Yale. The innovation of the present management in holding invitation games at which entries will be accepted from all the leading colleges and amateur athletic clubs, is meeting with thorough success. Entries have already closed for the games next Saturday. Much interest centers in two events on this occasion, the 100-yard dash and the mile walk. Yale has good men in both of these events...