Word: interests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of entries is very large and the handicaps are very liberal, the finish will be very close and exciting. Especial interest is felt in this race as the five men making the best time will constitute the Harvard team in the coming race with Technology...
...annual report of President Barnard on the condition of Columbia College has just been published. The part referring to the graduate department is of special interest to Harvard, as Columbia, in this branch, is the only American college which can at present compete with our own University. Columbia is now considering the advisibility of raising the whole scheme of education to a higher plane, to give more attention to the advanced students than to those in the other departments...
...inaccuracies which have somewhat marred the Index in former years will be carefully avoided. In addition to this the societies and clubs will be grouped according to their purposes, thereby making the Index more systematic than ever before. That the book may be complete, all who have matter of interest to the editors are requested to send it in immediately...
...November number of Outing contains several interesting articles on out door life and sport. College men will take particular interest in "The Progress of Athletism," by C. Turner, which is an account of the growth of ath etics in the English universities. The announcement is made of a series of similar articles on athletics in the leading American colleges, beginning with Harvard, in the next number. There are also sketches of "Base Ball in Australia," by Harry Palmer, and "The New York Yacht Club Cruise of '88," is well illustrated...
...team have now been in training five weeks; but the eleven that has been turned out does not promise to make even a respectable showing against Yale. To whatever cause the poorness of the eleven is due, whether to the inefficiency of the captain, or to the lack of interest among the men, one thing is very sure; unless a speedy imorovement takes place, whether by the training of new men or by the better work of the old ones, the team can look with confidence to a disgraceful defe at at the hands of the Yale freshmen...