Word: interests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Exonian, in a recent issue, advocated the formation of an Exeter Club at Harvard similar to the one at Yale for the purpose of furthering the interests of Harvard at Exeter. Such clubs have already been organized here by men from several statesand have been quite successful in accomplishing this object. They are useful in many ways; especially in keeping alive the interest in Harvard in the sections which they represent and in helping men from those sections to become acquainted here. Exeter has for many years been one of Harvard's most important preparatory schools, and any scheme which...
...magazine acceptable to every taste. The serials are "Passe Rose," by A. S. Hardy; and "The Despot of Broomsedge Cove," by Miss Murfree. Mr. Downes' fifth paper on "Boston Painters and Paintings," also appears. There is not an article which does not have some merit, but of the deepest interest to us, are papers on two of the living questions of the day, factory life, and economy in college work. In the paper on factory life, the writer gives an account of the practice of black-listing mill hands prominent in labor organizations. If the testimony of the unfortunate black...
...deep interest felt by the undergraduates here in the lecture which M. Coquelin will give in Sanders Theatre tomorrow, was shown by the immediate disposal of all the best seats, and in a short time nothing but admission tickets could be procured. The position in which M. Coquefin will be placed of lecturing before such a large body of American students will be a novel one, the more so because this opportunity will probably be the only one he can find time to accept during his tour in this country. That he may never regret his experience in talking...
Within the last two weeks there has been a perceptible flagging in the interest of the college in the success of the eleven. This is noticeable particularly in the fact that oftentimes there are hardly enough men on Jarvis in the afternoon to give the 'varsity team practice. Men seem to have been discouraged from playing because they have not gone to training table with the first or second eleven and because their chance for getting on either of teams seems small. If this is the real cause of the falling off in the number of players who used...
...been drawn; first, those who endeavored to tempt Him to desert His mission and to put his power to a wrong use; second, those who used hypocrisy and feigned piety as cloaks for iniquity; third, those who wilfully rejected the truth or who prevented it for their own interest. Dr. Fisher discovered in the examples he read of Christ's indignation, a principle that drew a clear distinction between inward anger and unlawful anger. Christ was never guilty of the latter. His anger was never personal, never revengeful, but it was a reflex of the highest zeal for truth...