Word: attract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then of the utmost concern that university graduates see clearly amid the fog and think straight amidst the babel of confusing voices. It sometimes seems as if no public address could attract attention today unless it constitutes a lurid arraignment of present conditions, or else a wanton attack upon some person or group of individuals. In the field of politics one who declaims of how things should be done and who promises the impossible gains a ready audience, while one who soberly recites a record of actual accomplishment is quickly brushed aside. Many men who pick up their morning papers...
...writers expect of it. And the Seniors, most of whom have too much to do at present any way, are losing many valuable hours on tours of inspection, on discussing the whys and hows of the water system. The bandstand is as yet in too embryonic a state to attract attention...
...sale could be posted. This year it has done the same thing, making it very much easier for students to get in touch with each other. Yet there are probably some who would prefer not to rely on what chance purchasers a posted notice of "Furniture For Sale" might attract: for them, there is another solution--let Harvard College be the purchaser...
...Since that time the growth has been steady and the enrollment this year is the largest in the history of the school, an increase of one-third over last year. There is every reason to think that the increase will continue, and especially the presence of Professor Haffner should attract larger numbers in the future
...most Seniors look back upon their last two rather than their first two years as the most pleasant and profitable ones in their course. This cursory review of the situation shows that the great aim ought to be to get hold of the student sooner than is done now--attract his interest and make him recognize his own potentialities...