Word: interests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political side, Councilmen who were interviewed were inclined to be more moderate. Interest centered on opinions of Michael A. Sullivan and Michael J. Dee, councilmen for Wards 6 and 7, in which most of the University property lies. Dee, who is running for sheriff of middle sex County, refused to say anything, but Sullivan followed the idea that Harvard was no credit to Cambridge as he said...
...something less than Author Churchill intended. What he proves, chiefly, is that Marlborough was merely no worse than his enemies. They signed a pussyfoot treaty at Utrecht but probably prevented a revolution of the war-weary English masses. They drove Marlborough to exile, but he revenged himself with interest when he returned to riches and honors at Queen Anne's death. They hatched the great South Sea Bubble swindle, but Marlborough forced the Government to build fabulously costly Blenheim Palace as his reward for being a "good Englishman." For the modern reader, main interest in Author Churchill...
Professor Jones has pointed out that although the competitions for the Bliss Prizes are an important part of the Committee's plans, they represent but one phase of a general effort to awaken in undergraduates an interest in the formative influences which have gone to make American civilization what it is today...
...Counsellors will be glad to assist any student who wishes to increase his understanding of American culture, past and present, whether he plans to compete for the Bliss Prizes or not. The Committee is especially eager to interest students not taking courses in the American field...
Perhaps most of the local interest in the Military Men is centered in the mule situation. As last year, not one, but two, beasts will accompany the Corps, one being "Mr. Jackson," the real government issue mule, and the other being "Poncho," the little mule from Ecuador. Last year with the Pointers "Poncho" batted .300 falls in eight games...