Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...several years our Association has sent Christmas seals to the students of Harvard and other colleges in Cambridge. The response in interest and money has been spontaneous and generous. Last year the per capita return from Harvard students was only 1 percent less than that of the institution with the highest rate. The heavy returns coming in daily this year from Harvard students and from students of other colleges in Cambridge demonstrate individual and personal interest in the cause for which the Christmas Seal stands...
Between 1881 and 1925, theatrical work at Harvard developed to the point where the University was considered to be the leading center for education in the drama. This did not occur because of any generous hand or kindly countenance within University Hall. It resulted from great undergraduate interest combined with a particularly distinguished group of men on the Faculty. The Administration sat quietly by, watching carefully all the while. It tacitly approved the productions offered by the French, German, English, and Classics Departments, as these had an aura of educational value. The debut, in 1881, of this phase of dramatics...
Representatives from the graduate schools of Business Administration, Engineering, Law, Divinity, and Arts and Sciences took immediate steps to work with the Council on such projects of mutual interest as foreign relief, charity donations, alien student aid, the National Student Association, and student finance problems. Another meeting was scheduled for next Tuesday...
...freshman year. Of the eight men who were selected to serve on the nominating committee, eight were nominated. The fact of membership on these various committees is not in itself a standard for judgment. A man should be elected to the permanent class committee on the basis of the interest in his class and the College, and the quality of his service to them, that he has displayed during his years at Harvard. Beyond any question, a number of highly qualified men are on the ballot. Other men, however, of indisputably equal merit, have been ignored, despite the immensity...
...hotel room, and Groucho and Chicho browbeating a timid lawyer into signing a $15,000 check. In a matter of minutes Harpo accompanies the other two on the harmonica as they sing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" over the body of a possum-playing playwright. All this and love interest too is entrenched at Boston's citadel of slapstick, the Laffmovie...