Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...classical departments at Oxford still continue to attract the largest number of able men, being hard run, however, by the mathematical school. Natural science comes next, then theology, then history, and last of all law, in which only one first class was obtained during the year...
...York Tribune says editorially: "The college boat races this year will attract more than usual attention from persons who are interested in such matters. Since Yale and Harvard withdrew from the Inter-collegiate Rowing Association, after having decided that they did not like to be beaten, except in an exclusive way by each other, their crews have won three races each. This year the contest is the rubber. Yale, Harvard and Columbia now have their men in vigorous training. The crews are better than they were last season. Each has several men who have rowed in races before...
...those who have never seen his larger works, they will prove a valuable supplement to the courses in fine arts, which they may have followed here. Among other notable sketches are some studies by Ruskin and a series of illustrations by Darte and Gabriel Rossetti, which should attract much attention from the signatures, if for no other reason. Mr. Moore also has some very fine water color sketches from Venice and Italy, which show an extraordinary delicacy of coloring. As the exhibition will close in a few days, and we feel confident that very few persons have visited...
...annual "horn game," between the sophomores and freshmen, is on the cards for the 31st of this month. This "horn game" has been an established custom for many years, and never fails to attract a crowd of spectators from far and near. The freshmen have practised constantly all the spring and play a very stiff game, so that the odds seem to be in their favor, and the sophomores are in a state of unenviable anxiety...
...John C. Ropes of Boston will lecture this evening in Sever lecture room on the First Napoleon. Mr. Ropes' views on Napoleon are said to be different from those usually held, and his lecture should attract a large attendance...