Word: awakening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they can, as it will require fully $10,000 to get the new track and grounds into first class shape. The committee wish that every man in college who takes any interest in Harvard athletics would do his best to collect money for the new grounds and to awaken interest on the subject among graduates. Subscriptions may be paid to the class committees or to any one of the undersigned...
...Clark will be in the singles and the winners of last fall's tournament are barred from the doubles, there is an unusually good chance for new players to come out. The Tennis Association in lowering the entrance fee hoped to increase the number of contestants and so awaken a more general interest. With three hundred or more tennis players in college, our tournaments ought soon to become among the best in the country...
...understand that the cricketers in college intend to put forth all their energy in the spring in order to raise a good eleven and awaken an interest in cricket throughout the college. In the first object they may reasonably hope for success. There are already a number of good cricket players in college, and with energy and steady practice there is no reason why they should not bring out a team able to make a good stand against the elevens from other universities. But in awakening a general interest in this sport the difficulties will be greater. In the first...
...exercise of the right vested in the society of denying to objectionable papers admission to the association, and by earnest endeavors to maintain a high standard among the papers connected with the association, good results may be attained. It is expected, also, that the yearly meetings will serve to awaken discussion regarding the best methods of conducting papers and to bring out ideas which may prove useful to those who desire to raise their papers to as high a degree of excellence as possible. Nor will the feeling of friendship, naturally encouraged by membership in an association, be without...
...containing little else than athletic notes and local hits. By these we think an inter-collegiate monthly would be welcomed as much as by the large majority of students. The college journalism is not enjoyed by the mass of the students. Would not an intercollegiate publication do much to awaken an interest among students in other colleges, and help to increase the sympathy of college men for one another...