Word: interesting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...short addresses tonight at the opening of the annual business meeting of the Civil Service Reform Club, to be held in Sever 11 at 7.30 o'clock. Professor Hart will speak on the historical features of civil service reform in this country and on the present young man's interest in the work; Mr. Lowell, who has just returned from England after a year spent in the study of the English colonial system, will speak on the English methods and experiences; and Mr. Dana will tell about the actual machinery of the work in this country. All members...
...club will restrict its work in the future to smoke-talks and public addresses, aiming, through the first, to educate its members in the subject of good government by introducing prominent reformers from the Faculty and the vicinity of Boston, and in the latter to encourage interest in the work among the members of the University at large by bringing to Cambridge men of national repute. Smoke-talks will be held once a month throughout the year...
There is, of course, the usual short funny story; but it is of general rather than local interest. The customary specimen lecture is "drool"; the one editorial contained in the number is a mere flow of adjectives and adverbs...
Occasionally a man forgets or disregards these conditions, and either secures possession of a volume he wants by underhand means, or takes it away from the Library secretly. Such a man sets himself directly against the general interest and has to be dealt with accordingly. He is deprived of the use of the Library, not because he has broken a certain rule, but because he fails to conform to the liberal principles on which the Library is administered, and shows himself unfit to be trusted in a Library that relies on the loyal support and willing co-operation of those...
...first issue of the Lampoon well describes its purposes by the editorial statement that "without the Freshmen Lampy would have nothing to talk about in its first number." There is little that would interest the upper classmen where conventionalities are so predominant...