Word: intereste
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...unable to say, but we fear that it will be very little. The University, however, in declaring for an honest and competent man to direct the affairs of the nation, has performed its duty. The vote, though not as large as it might have been, speaks well for the interest taken in politics by undergraduates, while the success of the canvass was owing, in a great measure, to the efforts of the Chairman of the Committee...
...Natural History Society will soon be announced, and we may predict for it as great a success this year as during the past three. The subjects of the Philosophical Club and Finance Club lectures are given in another column. All the lectures are upon subjects of such general interest that it is to be hoped that there will be a large attendance to support the clubs in their efforts to provide interesting and instructive courses...
...decided against the election then, and a committee of equally eminent lawyers decide in favor of it now. There must be good reasons for violating a precedent when lawyers think it advisable to do so. And the reason in this case is that it is desirable to have the interests of the many graduates who are not residents of Massachusetts represented in so important a body as the Board of Overseers. It is undesirable to take a step which shall in any way tend to diminish the number of students at Harvard, to impair the interest which graduates feel...
...think that all of these causes may have some share in determining the present state of things; but it seems to me that much mutual good might be accomplished if there were a change in this matter. A student who sees that a professor takes no interest in him naturally comes to regard the professor as an evil that must be endured at recitations, and may then be shunned. It is not for him to take the initiative, and he makes no advances...
...first element of a good teacher should be - after his competency to teach - that he takes a vivid interest in those he is to instruct. He should attempt to know them more than superficially, and to understand their peculiarities and ability, in order to make his instruction as beneficial as possible to each individual. For students cannot all be run through the same mould, like bullets, but allowance must be made for individual taste and proficiency...