Word: interests
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...minutes each, the contest was decided in favor of Mr. Denton. It was the intention of the managers that the two victors, Messrs. Riggs and Denton, should conclude the meeting by sparring together, but as it was already quite late, the match was postponed until the next meeting. More interest was taken in the sparring matches than in any of the other exercises, and it is to be hoped that this sport will be well represented in future meetings...
...this occasion should be avoided in future. The meetings in the Gymnasium will be very useful in affording students an opportunity to show the results of their winter training, and to encourage sparring, wrestling, and other sports which cannot take place at the spring or fall meetings. The interest which the audience took in the proceedings last Saturday show that these meetings of the association are an assured success...
...recent issues of the Yale papers have argued very ably for some radical changes in the management and arrangements of the eight-oar races between Yale and Harvard. A review of the advised changes is given elsewhere, and states the main points succinctly; and boating-men will feel much interest in the theory, which is that of a graduate of some years' standing, who has studied carefully the English system in comparison with our own, and decides in favor of "turn-about races...
Still I cannot but feel that a large part of the lack of interest is caused by the unfortunate choice of subjects. Undoubtedly, to the fledgling's eye, there is something very picturesque and poetic in a fading daisy, but as long as your readers refuse to see it, you had better keep your lucubration in your portfolio...
...revival, and the present condition of society there appears to be not unlike that prevalent in England during the earlier years of the Commonwealth. "Prayer-meetings," says the Nassau Lit, "are no longer dull, but fervid." The influence of religion is felt in the "recitation-room, where "spiritual interest .... transforms duty into pleasure." It is felt in the shape of "increased earnestness in base-ball matters," in the gymnasium," and in the training requisite for various athletic sports. Drinking has vanished from "spreads." Profanity, which is "not so much an amusement as a habit," has been abandoned. "Joy beams from...