Word: interests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...become the ruling passion at Harvard and that they have grown to this enormous degree of importance in the last twenty-five years. The committee has been misled here by the fact that athletics is the one thing in which the college as a whole can take an interest. There is little enough college feeling here as it is; and what little there is must have an outlet somewhere. We do not believe that athletics have increased and grown in any greater proportion than the University itself; nor do we believe that college duties are shirked because of interest...
...rather discourages it. In rowing, for instance, single and double sculls have nearly disappeared, and the whole energy of the boating men is devoted to the 'varsity crew. The students are becoming divided into two classes, those who are actively engaged in athletics, and those who take no interest in physical exercise at all. This is certainly to be regretted. Those contests which take place away from Cambridge materially interrupt the serious work of the students. Those who attend them are excessively excited, and are peculiarly exposed to the temptations of a great city. The influence is mischievous and distinctly...
...School of Library Economy of Columbia College some 300 lectures are given each year. Most of these are technical or of interest to few outside of the profession, but a few are of such general interest and have been so highly appreciated by those who have heard them that by special request they are given in the large lectureroom and the public is invited...
...with the Groton School nine, but owing to an injuury to their pitcher, they threw over their agreement and another game was hastily provided for with a team representing the employees of Bradford, Thomas and Co., of Boston. The game will probably be watched with a good deal of interest by many of the upperclassmen, and this ought to bring out the best qualities in a player both in the field and at the bat. Nothing inspires a freshman team with a healthy confidence in themselves and a feeling of reliance on each other more than to win their first...
...Francaise, Thursday evening, proved two things-that there is much latent talent in that line here at college, and secondly that the Conference is a thriving enterprising society, with a good deal of that qulaity known in New England as "push;" too often lacking in our college soceties. That interest in such affairs is great, is proved by the size of the audience, which thoroughly appreciated the numberous bons mots of the actors, and which insisted upon frequent repetitions of the last scene in the play. The acting was all that could be desired, being far better than that...