Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school's snob appeal is a very minor consideration for most students who are choosing a college, Wilbur J. Bender '27 Dean of Admissions, and two preparatory school headmasters stated yesterday...
Intellectual Appeal...
...place like Harvard, which is old and famous, may appeal to more students than a younger school like Swarthmore," said Saltonstall, "but, the appeal is primarily intellectual." Wood said that a school's fame and prestige, however, is seldom undeserved, though it may sometimes be a false basis of comparison...
...Winants cannot and do not make a mass appeal. This program can exist only through the support of special groups which, like the Harvard student body, can appraise its unique importance and supply it with the funds and manpower which it needs. Robert P. Well...
...kept on with his plan, and soon J. B. found himself doing just as Few had hoped. Cigar in mouth and cane in hand, J. B. picked out an 8,000-acre site next to Trinity, chose his type of architecture ("I've seen the Princeton buildings. They appeal to me."), ordered a chapel with 77 stained-glass windows and "the best medical center, by golly, between Baltimore and New Orleans." In December 1924, a year before J. B. Duke died, the new university was born...