Word: interests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Martin B. Anderson, for more than thirty years president of the University of Rochester, has recently resigned, and the appointment of his successor is awaited with great interest. Among the candidates are Rev. David L. Hill, LL. D., president of Bicknell University, Lewisburg, Penn., and Professor E. H. Johnson, D. D., of Crozier Theological Seminary, Chester, Penn. Dr. Hill is one of the youngest college presidents in the country, but has written text books on rhetoric, logic and psychology...
...little doubt that, were such a course started and conducted on an intelligent basis, it would be largely attended. Many men enter college and pass from day to day with very meagre ideas of that which is doing in the world about them. Congressional reforms have little interest for them, and present European politics are too complicated and need too patient study to be carefully followed. This is simply the result of one's finding himself set down in the whirl of events without an understanding of their causes; and to counteract this result a course in the topics...
...been the motive of the men who have not yet answered the circular, they all deserve to have their names posted. It is hardly conceivable that there are one hundred and fifty men in college who have no regard for the demands of common courtesy, not to speak of interest in the good of the college. One more day remains before the report of the committee goes to print. We hope the delinquents will seize the remaining time to prove that they are not totally devoid of gentlemanly feeling...
Princeton's commencement this year is to be made an event of great interest and will mark the farewell of President McCosh and the reception of Presidentelect Patton. The programme for commencement week is as follows...
...next year, unless the ranks are filled by a large accession of men from Ninety-two or unless singers among the students offer themselves at the trial of candidates in the fall. There are numbers of men in college who have good voices, but who have never had their interest aroused so far as to seek membership in the Glee Club, or who have been diffident about presenting themselves. The club does not demand men with exceptional voices, but rather those who sing with attention to the requirements of the music and with care in regard to the pitch...