Word: interests
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This is, of course, only a rough draft of a plan which seems eminently practicable. It will be seen that by this system the championship question will be settled once for all, that we shall have more regularity in the arrangement of games, and hence there will be increased interest in our national game. As regards the expensiveness of this scheme, it must be said that only two meetings of the Executive Committee will be necessary, and, as the expenses will be divided among a number of colleges, they will be of little moment compared with the advantages...
...Oxford expect to enter public life, for which we have no counterpart in our "politics"; they come up Liberals or Conservatives by education, and the Union debates are, for the most part, on political questions, - live questions, in which all have some concern; hence the debates have an interest and excitement unknown with us. Upstairs is the library, which is now very large, and much more used by students than the University or College libraries, where there is much red-tape, while at the Union each member is his own librarian, and the system works well. Here also...
...would be well to remember that the energy given to a new enterprise might sometimes be better employed in keeping one of the older organizations upon its feet. If a number of men who would not otherwise take part in an established society wish to devote themselves to some interest which they have in common, we see no reason why they should not do so. But if these men will leave some older organization, which needs their support, to start a new one, which may fall to pieces after a short and precarious existence, we think they should consider well...
NOTHING of interest has happened lately in Athletic circles. Every one has read of, and been disgusted with, the Hanlan-Courtney fiasco. Ross added one more defeat to his already long list, being easily defeated by Riley, in a race rowed on the Thames, October 21. Merrill and Duffy carried off the prizes in the three-mile walk and one-mile run, at the Amateur Championship of Canada Meeting, October...
...repeat, in the interest of the University, that one of the hindrances to its usefulness lies in the fact that a large body of Christian parents believe it to be a hot-bed of Unitarianism. . . . We shall be glad to receive from Dr. Clarke a definition of 'non-sectarian theology,' describing in detail the manner in which it is taught, and the view it takes of such questions as the Atonement, the Trinity, etc., . . . and telling us whether the chair or chairs from which it is to be taught in the Harvard Divinity School can be or will be filled...