Word: interest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...only two out of a thousand men at your University! Why, at Eton or Harrow or any school here, I am sure there would have been ten times that number, at least half of whom would have beaten that time. Tell me, is it that Harvard men take no interest in athletic games, or that they are lazy? For your papers are always full of sporting news, and would lead a stranger to suppose that the chief aim of your University was to train the body...
...nothing about it, but would be glad to learn; to all such the present opportunity will doubtless prove a welcome one. Mr. Carey brings to his work a good reputation, and a method of instruction which has been very successful elsewhere. If he can succeed in arousing a general interest in singing he will deserve the thanks of all, but it remains to be seen whether he will be able to overcome our old friend. Harvard indifference. There is certainly material enough in college, and much of it is raw material, so there is a fine opening...
Every branch of Athletics is now so quiet that nothing of interest can be said or written. The New York Athletic Club held two days' sport at Gilmore's Garden, New York, but the times made were poor, and the races devoid of any particular interest. The mile-run was won in 4 min. 52 1/2 sec. (we think) by a man with 58 yards' start, which would make him about as good as 5 min. or 5 min. 2 sec., for the full distance. The times made in the bicycle race were very poor, one two-mile heat being...
JUDGING from the violent form which the interest of Russian students in politics has lately assumed, there is very little "indifference" at the Russian universities...
...deficit and debt the professors will forego their scanty salaries, and other expenses can be somewhat reduced; but it is doubtful whether the school can be carried on entirely without endowment. The school has no endowment whatever, not even a building. It pays rent, in the form of interest on its debt, for the house it occupies; and it has no funds...