Word: interest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard Lacrosse Club of New York has recently been organized by graduates formerly interested in lacrosse here. Its object is the extension of interest in the game at Harvard and the promotion of friendship and intercourse among former players. H. A. L. Sand '95 has been elected president and R. E. Swezey L. S. '97, secretary...
...unusually large number of men are out for track athletics at Cornell. About one hundred and twenty-five candidates are in training for the University track team, as well as a large number for the class teams. The chief cause of this increase of interest is the fact that Cornell will send a team to the Olympian games at Paris next summer...
...changed hereafter. The game is primarily an undergraduates' affair. We rely upon them to make up the team, and the team and its managers rely mainly upon them for the enthusiasm which helps to success. It would be easy to imagine what would become of college football if their interest in it should be discouraged. The undergraduate has a personal interest in the game which it is impossible that he should continue to keep to the same extent in later life. The players are his friends, his classmates or his contemporaries. Their record is a part of his college experience...
...speaking was most encouraging in the sense that it showed the great interest that is being aroused in debating by the present system of class clubs. The number of men who tried is unusually large. As might be feared from informal camp debating, some of the men betrayed a lack of stage presence, certain defects in form, and an unfortunate weakness in delivery. But the general tenor of their speeches, and particularly of the more experienced Law School men, was very satisfactory. In the allotted five minutes, the speakers usually attempted, and with fair succes, to confine themselves to proving...
...following extracts from some letters concerning Houston Hall at the University of Pennsylvania, which were printed in this paper two years ago should be of unusual interest at this time PHILADELPHIA...