Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...editorial competition, which is open only to Juniors, consists of writing editorials, and of gathering data for editorial use. The news competition is open only to Sophomores. The work in this field consists in gathering and writing up news items which are of interest to members of the University, and affords in addition, an invaluable training in self-expression, an admirable opportunity to get into touch with the working of the University, and an excellent chance to form an extensive acquaintanceship among the more prominent undergraduates...
There will be a meeting for all men in any way interested in track or cross-country in the Trophy Room of the Union tonight at 7 o'clock. N. W. Bingham '95, W. A. Barron, Jr., '14, captain of the 1914 team, and Alfred Shrubb, coach of the cross-country team, will be the speakers. They will outline and explain everything in connection with the coming season. Everyone, whether experienced or not, who has any interest at all in track or cross-country should attend...
...mass meeting for the purpose of stimulating interest in the cause of national defense will be held in Boston on Thursday, October 21. The meeting will be presided over by Governor Walsh. Among the speakers will be Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '71, and Professor R. N. Johnston of the History department. An effort is also to be made to have Secretary of War Garrison attend. All the Massachusetts congressmen will be invited...
...student, for example, is usually older than the American and has had greater preparation. Moreover, this is still a new and essentially commercial country, where ideas are not so much in the minds and lives of men out of college as they are in Europe. The charge that undergraduate interest in public affairs is more of the sportsman's interest in men and candidates than in movements is of doubtful validity. The Forums last year, in which prohibition, the war, the administration, and other such matters were heatedly discussed, tend to refute it; and public affairs as well...
Most damning, however, is the charge that the "sporting attitude" prevails in regard to college courses. Most students are interested in "passing" examinations, or, if their standard is higher, in winning A's for their value in securing scholarships or elections to Phi Beta Kappa. The degree and other honors overshadow the more important interest in the problems of life. This is a serious charge, and one that is ninety per cent. true. In choosing courses today the undergraduate should remember that he is disposing of opportunities for broadening and deepening his intellect which will not offer themselves in later...