Word: interests
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Graduate Athletic Association meeting tonight calls many alumni to Cambridge to forward a project which bids fair to greatly strengthen our athletic policy in centralizing and controlling graduate interest. The plan is by no means a new one. It has been carefully considered and formulated by those who set the active movement on foot six weeks ago, and that it meets with widespread approval is shown by the large number of favorable responses to the circulars issued...
...undergraduate committee on the University Club requests most earnestly that all men who wish to signify their interest in the proposed club sign one of the blue books today. The object of collecting the signatures is to show the degree to which such a club would be used at the present time. It is of the utmost importance that all names be in before the beginning of the mid-years...
...another volume. There are, however, in this volume a good many passages relating to education, and one entire essay discusses the question "wherein popular education has failed." What is striking about the book, coming from the President of the oldest American university, is that his field of speculation and interest is so much larger than the mere field of education. Fifty years ago such a book would have been a narrow if not sectarian performance; today the essayist is no mere educator, but a man of the world, an administrator, the executive, representative head of a corporation so important...
...addition to the interest which is sure to be aroused by addresses from such prominent graduates as Mr. Bancroft and Mr. Roosevelt, the business which is to be transacted is as important as has ever come up for consideration in the social and athletic side of Harvard life. The organization proposed, will, if ably conducted, find its field of usefulness constantly broadening, and this field is one which is the province of no organization now in existence. To hear this question discussed by the large and representative body who seem likely to attend will certainly be an event of importance...
...remedy for all this has been suggested. One of the lessons of Scripture renders us the fundamental economic law that nothing can be established except by human labor. Arbitration is wholly useless to settle these questions, but it is a healthy sign of public interest. The true solution of the problem is the recognition of the principal of brotherhood. The employer must recognize his employee as equally interested with himself in his business...