Word: interests
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...qualifications of applicants to be decided upon by an examination. The meetings of the club to be essentially social in character, at the same time that so re literary performances may be found useful in sustaining the interest. The expenses of the club will be inconsiderable, and will be defrayed by an initiation fee put at the lowest possible figure...
THIS is, in compact form, a record of investigation and discovery, which shows how large and active is the army of workers in the interest of science. So comprehensive a work could not be entirely free from error, but it is almost so. As a book of reference it is invaluable, and can be by no means uninteresting to the general reader...
...inferred from its title, "Turning-Points in Life" deals with those questions which are, at the same time, the hardest to answer and the most important in the lives of all men. It is, therefore, of especial interest to those who begin to see these enigmas looming up before them, near enough to present in full light all their knotty points, but far enough off to afford time for deliberation. On all the practical questions which he discusses, Mr. Arnold appears to speak impartially and carefully and with good judgment. More than this, however, we cannot...
That the Museum has, in so short a time, risen from almost nothing to its present position should not be merely an object of local but of national pride. Fortunate it is, too, that an interest in these studies, and it is to be hoped not a temporary one, has sprung up, not only here but elsewhere, just at a time when metaphysical investigations are awaiting the solution of certain problems in Natural History...
...name of Professor Byerly, Harvard, '71, appears several times in this paper. It is exceedingly gratifying to his many friends here thus to hear of his growing popularity through "his gentlemanly manners in the class-room as well as his interest in athletic sports." We also remember that he was not first in his class in scholarship alone, and wish him every success...