Word: interests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...test the popularity of an experimental course than making it in the first place voluntary, and then if the attendance warrants, changing it to a half or full course. Some instructors in English could easily take charge of the course in journalism at the start and if the interest awakened were sufficient to show the advisability of continuing, the next year two lectures a week could be given by some Harvard graduate connected with the practical workings of the daily papers. It should be remembered that English 6 and English 10 were merely started on an experimental basis, and that...
...deters the faculty from taking the initiative, and unfortunately there is no precedent at other colleges by which it is easy to judge the benefit of such a course. Lately, however, Cornell has established a chair of journalism, and the success of the move will undoubtedly be watched with interest by other colleges which are on the verge of following Cornell's example. We have no hesitancy in pronouncing the success of the plan if tried here, but time alone can prove with certainty the advantages of such a policy...
...another column the St. Mark's alumni dinner which takes place January 3d, 1889. There is a two-fold purpose in holding these alumni dinners-one to bring the lower classmen in college into closer relations with men of the upper classes; the other to keep alive the interest of the graduates in the welfare and growth of their preparatory schools. These motives cannot be carried out unless all the alumni take an interest in them and make it a point to attend the dinners. The first dinner of the Alumni Association of St. Mark's occurred last year, when...
...PAPAZIAN, of Constantinople, and now of Harvard College, respectfully invites your attendance at his Oriental Bazaar which comprises a fine collection of Turkish and Persian Rugs; also a large variety of Fancy Goods of useful and artistic interest. These goods are carefully selected from the finest specimens of Oriental Art, and are especially adapted for Holiday Presents. They will be on sale at reasonable prices, beginning December 12, 1888, at J. F. Myles, Lyceum Building, Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass...
...being agitated among the students at Amherst, and the discussion is so general and so earnest that decisive action of some sort may be looked for in the near future. These are: Compulsory attendance at divine service, the quality of instruction in some of the departments, and the athletic interest in the college...