Word: interesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...generous sum of $30,000 has been deposited with the Mercantile Trust Company of New York by J. H. Hyde of the class of '98. as a permanent lecture fund for the Cercle Francais. The interest on the sum will be used to bring to Harvard every year a distinguished French man-of-letters, who will give a series of lectures on French art, literature or history...
...plans proposed in another column this morning in regard to some general system of prescribed physical culture here at Harvard, will arouse considerable interest. The feeling has become general of late among many of our graduates, that not only are many men losing as much in bodily health as they gain in mental development during their stay in college, but that our athletes often do not make the most of themselves. In the one case it is simply because regular exercise is not thought of; in the other because it is merely seasonal...
...plans proposed are intended merely as suggestions. It is not the wish of the graduates who are interested in the matter to ram a disagreeable prescription down the undergraduate throat, that is distinctly a non-Harvard policy. It is hoped, however, that they will awaken interest and support, and that undergraduates who may think of some better method of meeting the present visible difficulties, will not be diffident in coming forward with suggestions...
...cover, is decidedly readable throughout. An intelligent and well balanced criticism on Richard Harding Davis is the first main article of the number. "A Bottle of Alcohol" is somewhat unpleasant in subject but shows great facility in short story writing. A Christmas story called "A Gift of Gifts," will interest the regular readers of the Advocate, because they may see in it promises for the future. Its merits are so striking that one feels that time will obliterate the faults it exhibits...
...number is distinctly representative and of varied interest...