Word: interesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...harmful influence thus exerted by the college, ultimately reacts on the college. The freshman classes enter with very strong athletic propensities, and too often with correspondingly weak interest in intellectual pursuits. It becomes the work of the college not to develop right ideals, but to cultivate them; not to broaden the field in which mental activity has to play, but to furnish the first stimulus to any real mental activity at all. Obviously there is here a serious incongruity between the desirable and the necessary in a college education, and the fault lies with the students themselves. By their devotion...
...necessarily considerable, and they must be in large part defrayed by contributions from the class. It is in matters like this that the real strength of class feeling can be tested, since students generally part reluctantly with money, unless for some object in which they feel a live interest. Ninety-eight, if she lacks in class interest, should yet have class pride enough to prevent her from leaving any deficit in her baseball accounts at the close of the season...
...many years at the head of the Department of Chemistry. As his colleague, Professor Jackson is peculiarly fitted to recall to the memory of students the history of his life and of his prominent connection with the University. The address this evening will be of very great interest to all who were in the College while Professor Cooke was still a familiar character here...
...BABBITT, Sec.BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION. - The March social meeting will be held Thursday of this week at 8 p. m., in the D. U. rooms. The teachers of the school have been invited and preparations have been made for a meeting of unusual interest...
...event which will be of unusual interest to Harvard men is the testimonial which is to be given to Dr. Samuel F. Smith of the class of '29, in Music Hall, Boston, on Wednesday, April 3rd. It is the first formal public recognition of the author of the national hymn. A programme of unusual interest and especial fitness has been prepared and the occasion will be a notable one among many memorable ovations that have been given to poets, authors and public men in this historic hall...