Word: interests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...William Lawrence and Rev. Alexander McKenzie. Rev. E. E. Hale delivered an impressive sermon on the text, "I am the way," after which earnest addresses were ma e by Prof. F. G. Peabody and Rev. Phillips Brooks. Music sung by the chapel choir during the evening added to the interest of the services. The chapel was well filled with students and others...
...glance at the averages of the players in last spring's games is of interest in comparing the work of the Harvard nine with that of the Yale and Princeton teams. As the table shows our nine fielded wretchedly, with the exception of a few players. In batting, Harvard was extremely weak, the hits of our players being made mainly in the games with Princeton. Five Yale players and one Princeton man rank, in the average of base hits, higher than our heaviest batsman, Willard; while the majority of the names of Harvard players appear at the bottom...
President Barnard of Columbia College has seen fit in his last annual report to state his views on a subject which is now exciting much interest throughout the college world, namely, college athletics. President Barnard recognizes the fact that much can be said on each side of the question, but his conclusion is based on arguments not altogether satisfactory. The substance of that part of the report dealing with the athletic question is as follows...
...good will of the students and graduates to make up in subscriptions what we have lost financially, and to come forward with contributions to help fill the extra column. It has always been a matter of sorrow to us that the graduates of our university should take such little interest in the college press. But we shall try to make our columns interesting to the graduates as well as to the undergraduates, and we trust that our efforts may meet with their reward in the shape of added subscriptions and literary contributions from the graduates of Harvard. To the undergraduates...
...York Mail and Express has this fall made an innovation in the form of a weekly column called the "College World." This will co-perate with the college newspapers in exchanging news of interest to the students. We publish the gist of last week's "College World...