Word: interesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This lecture is one of a series recently began to afford some additional centre of interest to students and their friends. At present for students inviting their friends to a college tea, the glass flowers and vespers are the only attractions and it is feared that the vesper service is not always attended in the right spirit. A series of afternoon lectures entertaining and instructive has therefore been started and it is hoped that they may prove so attractive to students and their friends as to warrant their continuance next year. The afternoon hour for which these talks...
...Florence, the Chronicle of Giovanni Villani is of highest interest and importance. If the Chronicle of Dino Compagni were what it professes to be, a contemporary record of events, it would be of incomparable worth: and tho' it be of doubtful genuineness it is still of value...
...subject to be debated at the next meeting of the Wendell Phillips Club will be one of great interest to all members of the University and a very large and enthusiastic meeting is expected. The question is, "Resolved, That the action of the Faculty in condemning intercollegiate football was justifiable." Students and outsiders alike are invited to attend the meeting and speak from the floor...
...production of Ben Jonson's "Silent Woman" in Sanders Theatre yesterday was undoubtedly one of the most unique that has been seen upon any stage in America. Though its interest was rather a literary and historical than a strictly dramatic one, yet the presentation was in every way a great success...
...interesting to see how thoroughly awakened Yale is to her need for improvement in the art of debate. The last contest with Harvard has apparently made defeat do longer endurable, and every effort is being made to provide such training as may prevent its recurrence. In these efforts both faculty and students are united. The students are anxious to remove what they now begin to consider the disgrace of repeated defeats, while the Faculty seek to free Yale from the possible reproach of neglecting an important branch of college education. Their latest move has been a particular request...