Word: attract
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...clubs. Every man making the trip is a representative of the University in the cities which he visits. His good conduct will strengthen the position of the University in the minds of those he meets, his poor conduct will weaken its position. Unusual efforts are now being made to attract Western men to Cambridge. Whether those efforts shall be furthered or thwarted by this trip depends on the conduct of individual men on the clubs and the impression they give. Disorder will counteract the testimony of graduates and the work of the Faculty; good behavior will go further to disprove...
...Henry's own mill Martha finally goes. There in the spinning-room, with its racing machinery and tired children tending the bobbins, she finds two little ones who attract her. Brother and sister they appear to the world, though they have already explained to us that "Skinny" Hinks, the boy, is really the child that Lirty had left when he died in the hospital. The remainder of the act tells of Martha's attempts to secure work in the mill in order to see the children, how the foreman and a director think her an investigator and refuse...
...Harvard's larger leaders gave New Lecture Hall to the University, and the query is whether the Lecture Hall could be of great service to the University, if some of the lecturers were men, for example, like Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Joseph Choate, whose leadership would attract large numbers of hearers, and might be especially suggestive and inspiring...
...have appealed to the public because of the popular subjects painted and the excellence of the painting. They have appealed to painters as examples of technical ability, seldom if ever surpassed. This is the first exhibition of the work of Degas in this vicinity, and it is sure to attract many visitors. It is interesting to note that Harvard is for the first time giving an exhibition of modern paintings. This is certainly a step in the right direction if the standard of the present exhibition can be maintained. DENMAN W. ROSS
...competition for positions on the board of editors. Requirements for election hereafter will be based either on general efficiency in news gathering, as heretofore, or on ability to write editorials. This innovation, which was suggested in a recent number of the Monthly, is adopted because the CRIMSON wishes to attract undergraduates of unusual writing ability. In every class there are a few such men, but oftentimes they have neither the time nor the inclination for the regular competition in news gathering...