Word: interests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...best known authors, and there is no trace of the cheap literature which some readers make use of to amuse their audiences. The book is tastefully bound and is as well an ornament as a real companion. We heartily recommend this little volume to all, not only as of interest in itself, but as a fitting souvenir of pleasant evenings spent with Mr. Riddle...
...equanimity until one of the spectators, more impartially disposed than the rest, reminded him of the office he was supposed to fill. For his sake, we should also like to hint mildly that an umpire's business does not consist in coaching the members of a team in whose interest college ties bind him. In short, the nine has every reason to feel aggrieved at their treatment, and we are only sorry that a game was arranged at all with the University of Pennsylvania...
...which their cooler judgment would condemn." Furthermore, this game gives ample opportunity for developing sound bodies, without drawing too much on the store of energy needed primarily for brain work. Tennis does not tend "to divide the students into two classes, those devoted to athletics, and those taking no interest in physical exercise at all," or "to discourage a general habit of athletic exercise...
...examination papers will present three or four disputed questions of sufficiently varied and general interest to enable each student to treat one of them. Accompanying each topic will be a syllabus of the evidence, pro and con, upon which the controversy rests; and from this syllabus a brief must be constructed and an argument elaborated to sustain the proposition and meet the objections presented...
...over-haste of Harvard towards liberalism. A short extract is contributed by Dr. Hale from his forthcoming volume on "Franklin in France." The part played by Franklin in the Asgill affair during the Revolution is described in clear and simple language. The story is almost dramatic in its interest. One of the best productions that have come from the pen of an editor of the Monthly is the account of "An Eighteenth Century Jubilee," written by Mr. Howe. The careful handling of detail, the judicious mingling of light and shade, the vivacity of expression and the lightness of touch manifested...