Word: interesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...gathering biographical material, especially of the personal sort, that it is rarely successful. We can not well say that Mr. McCarthy's Life of Gladstone is pithy. But it can by no means be criticised as a book that will permit of much skipping. Mr. McCarthy is always interesting. And in this book he tells the simple story of Mr. Gladstone's life from the time when he was president of the Oxford Union, and when he waited quietly in the House for his opportunity, till after he retired from private life, a parliamentary debater equalled only by Fox, William...
...Harvard University Golf Association, organized last spring, has now a membership of 130, and the tournaments held this fall show the great interest that members of the University are taking in golf. In the first handicap tournament there were 32 entries, in the second 34, and in the College championship, where every one plays from scratch, there were 30. The snow has so interfered with the playing of the last tournament that the semi-finals and finals as yet have not been played off. In this, as in the other tournaments, handsome prizes will be awarded...
...utmost by the co-operation of the students. It has been suggested that a bust of Phillips Brooks would aid greatly in impressing on the minds of visitors the original object of the building and in bringing to their memory his heart-felt sympathy and depth of interest in every branch of student life...
...Saviour's Church is of especial interest, for here John Harvard was baptized in 1607, and his father, Robert Harvard, was buried in 1625. The view of the section of the town of Southwark contains the church and the Priory of St. Saviour's and the Winchester House and London Bridge in the seventeenth century. The Thomas a Becket Chapel and the Woods Tower can also be seen, together with many other old and historic places...
...into small lots. A committee, consisting of President Eliot, Bishop Lawrence, Professor Norton and others, has been trying to raise a sum sufficient to redeem the land and make a park of it. $19,000 of the necessary $35,000 has already been subscribed; but in order to make interest in the matter more widespread an appeal has lately been sent out by prominent men in other parts of the country...