Word: interest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Every year many graduates come out to coach the different athletic teams and crews of the University and to these men undergraduates are indebted for their interest in the general advancement of Harvard athletics. A summary of the year's work under the various coaches should be of interest and at the same time should bring some slight recognition of their services...
...first thing one notices in this short retrospect is the uniform success of the Weld in all its contests, success which bears witness not only to good coaching but to really strong material. The second, is the fourfold expansion of rowing interest during the past two years, and not merely in interest but in success as well. This combination is certainly encouraging. There seems no lack of developing material to draw from, and that this material is rapidly developing, the past rowing season goes to prove. There were many old Weld men on the class crews, and three members...
...frame-work of Harvard's debating system as it now stands, seems effective. All that is needed is some method to make interest in it general, and this Yale system presents itself as a possibility. How to apply it is then the question...
That it could be introduced by class organization seems unlikely. While the history of Freshman and Sophomore clubs has proved that class clubs can be successful on a formal basis, their equal success on an informal and social, seems improbable. They are too large and the interests of their individual members are too varied. The possibility of establishing such a system is then in the hands of individual undergraduates. At Yale it is applied only among the best debaters, there being but twenty members of each "camp." What we would propose at Harvard is the organization in the Junior...
...long ago, at their final meeting of the year, the members of this year's Sophomore Debating Club discussed with considerable interest and much difference of opinion, the advisability of continuing their organization on the same basis next year. At the time we advised against any such move, saying that English 30 together, with the University Debating Club, would not leave a sufficiently efficient margin of debaters in the Junior class to warrant a class club, and that a Junior Club which was only a moderate success, in not keeping the under class clubs up to a sufficiently high standard...