Word: interests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discovery that a great corporation which manufactures both paper and electrical power has been acquiring a financial interest in certain newspapers has provided the occasion for declarations on the importance of an independent press. These declarations are important. Although no evidence exists that the newspapers concerned trimmed their news or editorial policies to suit the interests of the power company, it is plain that the relationship is embarrassing. Their own avowals of independence prove that much. However conscientiously they may have acted, the relationship is ambiguous and cannot be defended...
...light of the fact that competition with other colleges has appeared in the past a desirable stimulus to undergraduate athletic interest, this second point supporting the Corporation's plan may be thrown out at once. Whereas an income-bearing endowment which would be established with a view to making Harvard athletics independent of paid admissions is a pleasantly Utopian scheme, a capital improvement such as the erection of a thoroughly complete gymnasium should legitimately be considered a part of an institution's complete endowment. The situation may then be seen to resolve itself into a question of which of these...
Through the interest and generosity of Mrs. Frederic Shurtleff Coolidge, a recital will be given at John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building on Tuesday evening at 8.15 o'clock by William Kroll, violinist, and Kmmannel Bay, Pianist, under the auspices of the Divisions of Music and Fine Arts...
Several inscribed copies of works by William Cullen Bryant, a first edition published in 1850 of Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," a presentation copy of his very rare "Liberty Tree" printed in 1841, and books by James Russell Lowell. Emerson, and Oliver Wendell Holmes are other things of interest in the current display...
Even without such a stimulus the minor sports in Harvard have received a steady increase in undergraduate interest which reached its peak this spring when the call for candidates for the lacrosse team resulted in a larger turnout of men than any major team has received. It seems only fair that the men making this team should receive some insignia which at least approaches in importance that awarded to men on major sports teams, places on which were gained in a smaller field of competitors...