Word: attract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before Harvard University had broadened its representative membership by making direct efforts to attract men from the south and west its government was, and very properly, largely in the hands of New England alumni. Close association with the center of activity was considered a necessity for election to the Board of Overseers: and since comparatively few candidates lived in places far from Cambridge there arose a custom which has been followed with more or less regularity of selecting prominent graduates in either Boston or New York for the offices. Recent elections have shown that this tradition is still an active...
...should continue to maintain very high standards for our degrees even if the immediate result is slow growth. In time we shall be able to attract more and more students of the best quality; and this is our ambition...
Said he: "America has been extraordinarily kind to me. But I cannot wholly admire your civilization. There is too much noise and speed, too much emphasis on mere material prosperity, too much desire to show off and attract attention, and too much selling...
...always accuse a scholar of being pedantical merely, as Professor Kittredge has pointed out, because his work is uninteresting to the reader as an individual; and the fact that others may find the same matter intensely vital and alive does not remove the ignominy of its having failed to attract at least one person. Only occasionally comes there a man who contrives to build up a structure on the basis of carefully gathered data, perhaps arid enough, which immediately catches the fancy of both critics and public, and which is at once informative and a best seller. Such a book...
Considerable effort is being made to attract as many men as possible from all departments of the University to take part in the meet. Large cups, on which the names of the winners will be inscribed, have been donated by alumni and officials of the University. These trophies will be permanent and will be named after men prominent in track annals at Harvard. Besides these rewards, place winners will also receive gold, silver, or bronze medals from...