Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...accommodating assistants will inform you. You ascend the staircase and find yourself in what appears to be a very bare and uninteresting room. Be not deceived; its treasures like those of the earth, must be sought after in order to be found. There are things which must attract every one's attention, but let me say that it is a veritable paradise for cranks-I mean such cranks as coincollectors, bibliophilists and autographic fiends. How their hands must itch to see lying before their eyes such unattainable treasures...
...great pity that the intercollegiate games at New York were not managed a little better financially than they were. Crowds always attend athletic games in that city and the reason for the comparatively small audience at the college sports must have been due to poor advertisement, for college games attract besides those ordinarily interested in athletics, a large crowd of college graduates and undergraduates who go to New York from a distance on purpose. The Sprint of the Times lays this to the committee who, it says, "Seemed to have taken especial care that the public should not be informed...
...mile race tomorrow, between the seniors and university crew will attract the attention of all interested in college boating. The seniors have departed from the style of stroke practiced by the university crew for four-mile pulls, adopted likewise by the other class crews, and have been coached to row a much quicker stroke, which they claim will do them better service in the class races than the Harvard stroke. For this reason, aside from the question of whether a class crew can compete with the university crew at short distances, the race ought to draw a considerable crowd...
...position of importance that it deserves. Professor Child's course, the present English I., is to be made into a two years course similar to his Shakespeare course, which change will aloof more, thoroughstudy of the authors treated. Such a study as this is one that will attract a number of students who wish to make thorough study of their own language In addition to this, Professor Hill's old course is to be revived this year under Doctor Royce. This course, in connection with the increased advantages in the way of the study of collection, offered in an advanced...
...general subject of college athletics largely set on foot him. Any expression of opinion relating to this subject by President Eliot, such as the above, and delivered with the intent of influencing the opinion of a part or of the whole public naturally can be expected to attract attention and to provoke criticism. Such expression of opinion, therefore, we venture to suggest, should be carefully considered and sifted of all inaccuracies or dubious statements, before it is made...