Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...writer in a recent number of the Oxford Magazine asks the question: "How comes it that we have so few men in Oxford who are able to lead, who attract students to the university by their reputation, and send them from the university inspired with new motives and illumined with new light?" This question in reference to Harvard cannot fail to suggest many thoughts on the various features of university life at Harvard. At first sight a Harvard student will indignantly exclaim that the question does not apply to Harvard; that we have plenty of men here who do lead...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: As Prof. Summer has become particularly prominent in the last few months through the N. Y. Tribune, would it not be in order for the Finance Club to invite him to lecture before the students. There is no doubt that the lecture would attract a large audience...
These lectures by Dr. Royce, the first of which will be given tomorrow evening, are especially intended to attract the attention of students and others to a well-known but frequently neglected class of philosophic problems, problems that ought to be neither feared nor despised, but to be honestly, reverently and fairly discussed. The lectures will first make suggestions about certain modern ethical doctrines in their bearing upon religion, and will state the case of one doctrine in particular; then the inquiry will be taken up: What in the nature of things can be assumed to correspond to our moral...
...Historical Society follows the example of the Finance Club in announcing a lecture to be given under its auspices next Tuesday evening. Although the subject has been extensively treated in newspapers and magazines, its presentation in lecture form should attract a large audience...
...classmen who heard them, and those lectures given by the Historical Society were of such general interest that they have been thought worthy of publication in the Johns Hopkins University series. Besides the organizations mentioned there are several others in college which might arrange courses of lectures that would attract students and outsiders as well. If the Art Club is still in existence it might give strong proof of its life by instituting a series of lectures on art matters. We trust our suggestions will meet with the approbation of the societies mentioned and before long we expect...