Word: interesting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...address is of special interest this year as Major Higginson served with Colonel Shaw in the 2d Mass. Regiment and was his close friend and comrade. Colonel Shaw entered Harvard in the class of '60 but left college just before the end of his junior year. He entered the army before the beginning of the war and served for a while in the 7th New York National Guards. He soon exchanged to the 2d Massachusetts, however, where he served until in February of '63, Governor Andrews gave him charge of the 54th Massachusetts, infantry. This regiment was the first colored...
...word of commendation just now for the activity displayed in preparing for the Metropolitan regatta. After putting four creditable class crews into the class races, these three eights are to be trained for the coming regatta together with four oars and singles. Largely as a result of the unusual interest taken in rowing this year because of Mr. Lehmann's coming to Cambridge, and partly because of the energy of the management the club has this year done more than ever before. The chief drawback from the beginning of the season has been a lack of good coaching...
...Seniors defeated the Juniors yesterday in their first game of the class championship series by the score of 11 to 4. The game was loosely played on both sides and was decidedly lacking in interest. There were no brilliant plays and errors were frequent on both sides. The Seniors outbatted their opponents and their hits were more opportune...
There was a marked contrast between the two class games yesterday in point of attendance and interest shown by the teams. The Sophomores and Freshmen turned out in fairly large numbers and encouraged their teams with spirited cheering. At the other game there were very few Seniors and scarcely any Juniors. It seems, too, that if more interest in the games existed among the members of the two upper classes, the teams would be far better than those which met on Soldiers Field yesterday. Ninety-eight's showing was especially discreditable, and as there are a number of good ball...
...system, nor in the proposed plan of disintegration into smaller colleges which Mr. Corbin, after a year or two at Oxford, advocates strongly, but rather in a greater unity and a broader sympathy among all undergraduates, inspired not alone by the hope of athletic success, but also by an interest in one another and in the common institution and its traditions...