Word: interests
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Yesterday's brief report of the meeting of the Board of Overseers recorded a vote in which that body concurred with the Corporation in approval of the establishment of Freshman dormitories. The subject is of less immediate interest than the approaching changes in the elective system, but Freshman dormitories, when they become realities, will have a greater effect on undergraduate life than any limitation that is likely to be placed on the choice of studies...
...only who have all-round athletic ability. It would indeed be comforting to feel that your hammer-throwing specialist could at a pinch fill in creditably at baseball or hockey, or even turn a handspring upon a wager. Another serious article, by W. Lippmann, pleads for more robustness of interest, on the part of students, in American politics. By all means,--and in other matters too. "The Chinese Classics and Modern Research," by A. D. Sheffield, is closely reasoned, as it goes, but fails to make Chinese literature itself seem vital...
...them by custom, if not by law, which require preparation in a very special way. This is in every way of benefit to the community, I admit, but he who goes into the profession of teaching goes into it as he himself sees fit. He studies what is of interest to him, and he teaches this when he gets out into the world. He is free, in a sense that no other professional man is. If he wishes to go into public life, there is every opportunity opened to him, just as to his English cousin across the water...
...There are certain inward satisfactions that have been revealed to me in the few years I have been in educational circles. In undergraduate life, the supreme pleasure is to obtain such a control of the mind, that will enable you to turn upon any subject that may interest you, and hold it there until it delivers to you all that is possible to see,--to show up to you all that is within that subject, that man is capable of discovering. There is constantly in the college community a lifting up from plane to plane, higher and higher. The social...
President Lowell will be the principal speaker at a meeting in the Old South Church on Sunday in the interest of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. This is the first public address which he has made since his inauguration. George A. Gordon '81 and Booker T. Washington will also speak...