Word: attract
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Seniors are dubbed dignified and hardworking. Yet it seems to us that fully as many men are shiftless and ineffective in their last College year as in their first. After three years of undergraduate work, most Seniors have their degrees within easy reach. They have tried the athletics which attract them, and unless they have already "made good," their natural tendency is to drop out of further competition. This same disinclination to undergo any additional work is equally true of other lines of endeavor; scholastic, literary, and dramatic...
...coach have been secured. Mr. Charles Burgess, instructor at the Woodland Golf Club, will act in this capacity. Mr. Burgess has played the game fifteen years as a member of the Dundee and the Newcastle Independents, the latter having a consistently good record in the Final Cup Series, which attract in England as much interest as the professional baseball leagues in America. W. S. Seamans, Jr., '11, captain of the University team, P. Withington '09, assistant graduate treasurer of athletics, and Coach Burgess will address the meeting and outline the plans for the approaching season...
...subject which will be treated in these lectures is of compelling importance to present and future citizens, for the United States is confronted with certain problems for whose solution history affords no precedent. This combination of speakers and subject will attract many outsiders, but undergraduates should not take second place in seizing the unique opportunity offered by this series of lectures...
...communities there are individuals who seize every opportunity to attract attention to themselves by loud noises. Such men are always in numbers a very minor element, and come to be regarded as unworthy of the attention which they so strenuously seek. At first they may gain a little superficial notoriety, but this is soon lost in any true estimate of their worth...
...program for next Saturday afternoon has been added a game between the second team and Brown 1914, making this the first occasion,--at least in the memory of present undergraduates,--on which two football games have been played in the Stadium on the same afternoon. This fact should attract an attendance as large as the games of the University team...