Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...interesting contribution to a recent issue of the Boston Herald Professor Arthur Gordon Webster, of Worcester, tells the following story. One Commencement Day he met an undergraduate whom he asked to pick out their fellow-townsmen on the Honor List. With a laugh of contempt his friend replied: "We don't go in much for that." Professor Webster and a great many critics of American higher education would take this instance as typical of the proverbial Harvard indifference. There is still considerable justification for their opinion. Yet during the last two years Americans, and American students in particular, have undoubtedly...
Announcement by the Yale News that the United States government offers free instruction in military aviation to Yale undergraduates next summer is of general interest. Applicants may formally join the Aerial Flying Reserve of the United States and have their instruction free, or they may pay a small tuition and receive the instruction to qualify for pilots' licenses. There will be many to take advantage of both offers, no doubt. For the knowledge of how to operate a flying machine is going to be greatly in demand in a very few years. --New Haven Register...
...Handbook of New England," by Porter E. Sargent '96, is a surprisingly complete compilation of most interesting and universally enlightening and useful statistics, covering all phases of New England life. Written primarily for the summer visitor to this district, and especially for the motorist, this volume yet contains a great deal of material, both historical and industrial, which cannot fail to interest the most casual reader...
...succeeded in doing a hard job well. He has so interwoven and proportioned facts of antiquity, descriptions of old houses, historical data, present-day industrial notations, descriptions of natural features and directions to motorists, that what might well have been a dry-as-dust compendium is filled with lively interest. And to this is added an arrangement so carefully worked out, an index so complete and cross-references so accurate that the Handbook makes an unusually convenient reference-book...
...honest and clear-headed student of philosophy would be forced to say of Mr. Russell, no matter how much he disliked his philosophy, that no single man is better fitted to "make philosophy a living interest in this America of ours which so greatly needs it." A bowing acquaintance with philosophy "in this America of ours" at the present day would have made it clear to the writer that exactly that is what Mr. Russell's work as much as the work of anybody is actually doing. A STUDENT OF PHILOSOPHY...