Word: interesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...talk will be a general one with remarks on the nature of the country, the reasons why we have known so little about it, recent explorations and particularly modern political divisions. The recent controversy of England and France regarding the basin of the Upper Nile should lend added interest...
Much feeling has been aroused at Williams lately upon the question of compulsory attendance at chapel. It has now taken definite form in a petition that has been prepared and circulated throughout the college and which will be presented to the faculty and trustees. The interest in the present agitation is not confined to the undergraduates. A large number of alumni are understood to be very much opposed to the system of compulsory attendance and their influence will probably have considerable weight with the faculty and trustees. The petition reads as follows...
...believe thoroughly that a course of lectures upon historic Harvard, would be not only of great interest, but exceedingly instructive. There are professors in the Historical Department that have made the history of early New England a subject of special study and research, and who, it is safe to say, are familiar with most of the earlier associations of the University. They are just the men to give such a course of lectures. We feel that the writer of the letter was justified in saying that few students know anything of the founding of their college, or of its growth...
...HAVEN, April 6.The charges of intellectual stagnation at Yale due to abnormal interest in athletics, are again proven absolutely false. The prospectus of elective courses for the next year shows a remarkable educational advance in the innovations and additions to Yale's curriculum. History, Political Economy and English are the three most popular branches of study here, and the Faculty has shown a full appreciation of this fact. In history there are four additional electives added, one of which - Ancient Oriental History - is believed to be the only course of its kind offered at an American College. In Economics...
...Always Strong and Happy," or "The Key to Health and Strength," by Professor John R. Judd is a work of peculiar interest to all students. It propounds the principles of hygiene, discloses the errors of overtraining and what makes it especially valuable, points out, from an experience of over thirty years, the path to a high and harmonious physical development...