Word: interests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Divinity School Library, of a student's collection of about 250 volumes in fine condition, containing works of Shakespeare, Montaigne, Plutarch, (Plato), (Jowett), Longfellow, Emerson, Browning, "George Eliot," Darwin, etc. Also English, French and German dictionaries; and many other works of interest, among them Emerson's "Woody Plants of Massachusetts," Johnson's "Oriental Religions" (Persia and China). William's "Indian Wisdom," Julius Sachs' Text-book of Botany, etc. All must be sold. Terms cash. Books may be seen on Monday and Tuesday, June 4th and 5th, between 9 and 1 o'clock...
...seniors of the University of Nebraska have challenged the faculty to a match game of base-ball. The faculty accepted. If athletics are to be restricted among the undergraduates, it certainly is the duty of the various faculties to take part in order to keep up the interest in them. Harvard students might be reconciled to the recommendation of the overseers, if our faculty would follow this example...
...Payson, '90; Crehore, '90 and Amory, '90; Potter, '91 and M. Williams, '91; Parker, '89 and Pulsifer, '90. This race was the closest of the day, Herrick and Payson finishing only a few feet ahead of Crehore and Amory. The time was 10 min. 14 1-2 sec. Considerable interest was added to the race by the capsizing of both the freshman canoes. Stokes and Winthrop went overboard at the stake, Potter and Williams on the home stretch...
...college athletics. Without the co-operation of the students. the committee cannot form a clear idea of the state of athletics and of physical exercise in the college. This is a matter which deeply concerns the welfare of the University, and in which instructors and students alike have an interest. The committee wish to know what are the habits of exercise and the opinions of students of every sort; of those who take no active part in athletics, or do not exercise at all, as well as of those who witness, support, or enter athletic contests. If even a small...
...absolutely inexcusable. When the faculty is making an earnest effort to get at the root of the athletic question, the least that men can do is to co-operate with it fully and frankly. We think there are few students for whom this vital question does not have some interest; if there are any for whom it has none, shame for the fact ought to make them conceal it. Answers are still wanting from two hundred men. If they cannot take the trouble to reply to the questions in the circular, the work of the committee is almost useless...