Word: latent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...entries for the chess tournament is at present very small, only five men having signed the book. Last year and the year before very successful tournaments were held and a precedent was set for an annual tournament. As one of the objects of the tournament is to develop latent talent, all who play the game are invited to enter without fear of being beaten. The tournament is open to all members of the university. The book will be left at Bartlett's until Friday night. Rules for play will be announced later...
...vast effort is being made to overcome the apathy and inertia of the people and the corruption of the government in order to develop the latent capacity of the people for social progress. Schools and museums have been founded, European ideas of justice have been introduced, and the country is flooded with translations of French and European books to the exclusion of native literature...
...communication. The games, if played at any time in the day before three o'clock, would in no way interfere with the practice of either the 'varsity or the freshman eleven. The advantages of such play, on the other hand, are quite apparent. By it some excellent latent material is almost sure to be brought out. The plan will, also, keep active the interest in football as a sport in itself, and will thus promote the interests of the 'varsity eleven. To those who have participated in table matches, an agitation of the subject cannot but be welcome. The rest...
...Theatricals given by the Conference Francaise, Thursday evening, proved two things-that there is much latent talent in that line here at college, and secondly that the Conference is a thriving enterprising society, with a good deal of that qulaity known in New England as "push;" too often lacking in our college soceties. That interest in such affairs is great, is proved by the size of the audience, which thoroughly appreciated the numberous bons mots of the actors, and which insisted upon frequent repetitions of the last scene in the play. The acting was all that could be desired, being...
...needed the athletic defeats of that season and of last year to enable us to comprehend the complete degeneracy of the artificial system which was ruling us. Last June was the culmination of the bad effects of that system. At the opening of college this fall there was latent a real determination to alone for our past disgrace. This feeling has now become a frank, open one and already there is an upheaval of the old forms. If every senior class will hold to worthy ideals, as eighty-eight does now, we may expect in the future victory and optimism...