Word: interests
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...eleven leave this morning for Springfield to play their first championship game away from home. The result of the game with Wesleyan is of course a foregone conclusion, and yet the work of the team will be watched with interest since it may be expected to show at least in some degree our prospects of success during the remainder of the season. The work that has been done in practice has certainly been earnest, the coaching excellent, and if our team win the championship the honor of the victories will belong to the students and graduates alike...
...football game is not to be the only Harvard-Yale contest in Spring field on the 23rd. The interest of that day is to be supplemented by a match between the shooting teams of the two universities. Arrangements for the match are almost completed, and it is to come off in the morning. Last year the first Harvard-Yale clay pigeon match ever held was shot in Cambridge or rather at the clubs shooting grounds at Watertown, and our team won the honor of being the only Harvard 'varsity team that succeeded in lowering the blue...
...spirit of fellowship is greater at present than at any other time. The Idler club and the Emmanuel society are among the means of bringing the students often together in a familiar way. To those the English club has lately been added. It is intended "to arouse an interest in the study of English," and specifically to give an opportunity for the discussion of topics suggested in the various English courses, and for reading of the best literary work of the students. Membership is confined to those who have been assigned to a high grade by their instructors...
...usual instruction has been obtained during the year without difficulty. The professors of Harvard college still offer their services freely, and the members of the faculty in the different departments interest them selves in making each course of study full and well balanced. The college library has been used to even a greater extent than usual during the year, and the librarian and his assistants have offered the students many advantages in carrying on their work. The reference library has increased through the influence of the library committee, and by the generosity of friends, and it now numbers 2893 volumes...
...annual Fall Athletic games held last month, no college records were broken although a number of close records were made. No particularly promising material for this branch of athletics has as yet been shown among the freshmen. In order to keep up the interest in and encourage long distance running a series of Hare and Hounds runs are to be held Saturday afternoons...