Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fact that should appeal particularly to undergraduates is the great advantage this immediate instruction will give them in obtaining commissions in the reserve army. Any others who wish to be officers without first joining a volunteer force will have to wait until other officers' training schools, similar to the one established here, are formed by the War Department. The establishment of such schools necessarily would be delayed owing to the scarcity of available officers and necessary equipment. The citation of the advantages of the training to be given in the unit ought not to be necessary now. Harvard men know...
With the opening of the track season but a short time away, candidates for the Cornell track team are reporting in increasing numbers to Coach Jack Moakley. At first there was a marked scarcity of men in the sprints, weights and hurdles, but a vigorous appeal from the management brought fourth a large number of new men. The schedule has not been decided but will be much like last year's and will include the annual relay race with the University short distance team...
...professional football becomes an established fact throughout the country a great intercollegiate sport will face disintegration. There are features associated with the game as it stands at present that do not appeal to our university authorities nor to the more thoughtful elements among the alumni; but they are elements that can be dealt with and eventually eliminated. But with the game roaring through the country on a strictly professional basis no great stretch of imagination is required to picture effects on the college game--the flow of players from university to professional elevens, and all the accruing scandal and innuendo...
With a committee of fifteen prominent graduates representing all sections of the country the task of collecting this large fund ought not to be difficult. The plan of reaching every Harvard graduate of the last forty years will in itself lend great strength to the universal character of the appeal...
...example, although its honorary president is the President of the United States, and although its publications are printed at governmental expense, is in no way responsible to or connected with the government. So the Academy can rely only on popular appreciation of its high purpose. Its efforts should appeal to all patriotic Americans who desire that our savants should command the same respect as those of foreign countries. One might expect that this effort would arouse the enthusiasm of intelligent citizens and the support of a powerful press. But it was only the other day that a prominent mid-Western...