Word: interests
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...most charming feature in all these men is the intense interest they manifest in our culture and morals. Scarce a day passes over our heads that some philanthropic gentleman does not try to cultivate our taste for art by thrusting upon us poor engravings and cheap chromos; or that some gentleman, fresh from the Divinity School, and with its odor of sanctity about him, does not try to sell us a book which is the very thing to turn the hardened student from his evil ways, and give him the true view of life. The disappointment they show when refused...
...Spectator (Union College) closes Vol. I. in its last issue. We compliment it on its fine appearance and the peace that has existed in time past between The Spectator and The College Journal. The number now before us is full of interest to students and outside contributors. Their success is insured if the new editors make Vol. II. as good as the last number...
...present Sophomore class, on undertaking the conduct of the Institute, felt that although much good work had been done for it by the classes immediately preceding, and although it had in some respects been well maintained, yet that there existed a very general lack of interest in its literary work...
...infusion of some new life seemed necessary, and to this end the members worked sedulously to diversify and render the performances interesting by every means in their power. These efforts were successful in a marked degree, and the society can point to its records for the last six months with pardonable pride. Still, many were not satisfied, and it was not long before the one thing needful took definite shape in the minds of all. What interest or even dignity could attach to a society whose members sat dangling their legs over wooden benches, and the location of whose president...
...reappearance of Professor Agassiz in the lecture-room, after a long absence, has revived the interest felt in the great scholar and in the science to which he has devoted his life. The lectures - which, by the way, are free - form a part of the University Course of Lectures, and are given at the Museum of Comparative Zoology on Thursdays, at 3 P. M. The subject is "The Natural Foundation of Zoological Affinity." This opportunity to obtain instruction in a very interesting department of science, from one who unites to great knowledge a clear and vivid manner of presenting...