Word: interests
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...river there is now much less activity than there was at the same date last year. There is but one explanation of this state of affairs. The novelty of club races has passed away, and any one who has watched the decline and fall of interests in college amusements other than boating will not be surprised. There is not the slightest doubt that we in college have some traits in common with the inhabitants of the nursery. We have an abundance of new toys, and we are always ready to discard our last plaything...
...keep order and protect spectators, and to make an expenditure of money which is very small. On general principles, we are opposed to any sort of connection between the general public and the race. It is purely a college affair, with which the public should have but a passive interest. During the past few years, however, it has been the custom to talk and write about the College Regatta as if it were some professional contest...
...editorial column it laments a decline of interest - actual and pecuniary - in base-ball; it praises the heroism of Amherst students at some recent fires in the town, where the fire department appears to have been almost as inefficient as our own; and, finally, it vehemently attacks some of the same students for a nocturnal disturbance in the campus, which seems to have been like the "flare-ups" with which our Cambridge wags occasionally amuse...
...unwilling, however, to accept the statement without a struggle. If there is on the staff of the "comic journal" a Mr. Digby who asks questions of instructors to give the impression that he is much interested in what he is studying, is there no one to be found elsewhere who really has the interest which the distinguished artist assumes? Are there not many men, on the other hand, who, not having any particular interest in what they are doing, nevertheless make no pretence to seem interested? There are, I think, three classes of students, - those who have a real interest...
...poem by Mr. Eyre. The ode, written by Mr. B. Tuckerman, was sung by Mr. Paullin. The regular toasts were given by Mr. Blaine, and were responded to as follows: "The Class of '78," drank in silence: "The Institute," Mr. Homans; "The Athenaeum," Mr. Moore; "The Boating Interest," Mr. Littauer; "The Nine," Mr. F. W. Thayer; "The Eleven," Mr. Lombard; "The Press," Mr. B. Tuckerman; "The Lampoon," Mr. W. S. Otis; "The Musical Societies," Mr. Paullin; "The Art Club," Mr. P. Tuckerman. The class songs were well sung under the able leadership of Mr. Dorr...