Word: attractants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...editors of the Harvard Review have courageously turned the current issue of their magazine over to a group of scientists interested in the problems of psycho-physiology. To attract sensitive humanists, however, they have chosen to title the issue "A New Psychology" and they hasten to assure their non-technical readers that the approaches to the problem are more significant than the facts that are presented. Psychophysiologists consider only the material properties of mind. And what makes their work so fascinating is that it revives the hoary mechanism-vitalism controversy, and suggests that the problems of free will...
Though the great majority of undergraduates in the clubs are graduates of New England prep schools and often come from socially prominent families, the clubs claim to take other factors into consideration when recruiting members. Some of the clubs have built images which either attract or repel club-bound sophomores. Both the Spee and the Fly have reputations for being intellectual and favoring artists and other "achievers"; the A. D. tends to attract fastidiously-dressed New Yorkers; the Owl draws a lot of athletes; Delphic members are quite likely to enjoy heavy drinking and gambling; the Porcellian Club...
Depth, too, may come with time. In the Natural Sciences particularly, the upper-level offerings at present are extraordinarily weak. Perhaps the Gen Ed committee will decide ultimately that the way to attract unusually qualified professors to the Gen Ed program is to offer them unusually qualified students--to institute upper-level Gen Ed courses with stiff prerequisites...
...more than 300 students from 15 law schools attended the council's first big meeting. In Washington, Students Hirschkop (now a Virginia lawyer handling a key miscegenation case) and Richard Granat (Columbia '65) got the council declared tax-exempt in a record-breaking ten days - and helped attract another $75,000 in foundation money in the process...
Almost 14% of the land has been reserved for light-industry plants and government-agency buildings. To attract small companies, Simon is constructing a 132,000-sq.-ft. office building that will rent out space, feature a common cafeteria, technical library and possibly a communal computer. The industrial park will restore to most residents the old-fashioned pleasure of being able to walk to work...