Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this volume we are inclined to think it one of the best brief accounts of our constitutional system that have been published. It has the sort of merit that is usually found in the comments of a competent foreign observer upon the institutions of any country. Things that attract little attention, and so are often not at all remarked or understood by those who live under a given system, strike a stranger with the charm of novelty; they are tacitly compared with other institutions, and their true character is often more keenly perceived and brought out by such observers than...
...wish to call attention to the lecture on "Petra and the Sinaitic Peninsula" which is to be given under the auspices of the Harvard Classical Club on Wednesday evening. The subject is one which ought to attract many interested in biblical history. The Classical Club is to be congratulated on its enterprise in securing the able services of the two gentlemen who are to lecture on this hitherto slightly known topic...
...give, if possible, to all who are interested in the subject of legal education, some idea of what is done under the Harvard system of instruction." This intention has been admirably carried out in the first number containing many interesting and noteworthy points which cannot fail to attract the attention of all who are now studying the law and many who, though still undergraduates, intend at some future date to embrace the law as their profession. Offers of assistance have been made by many of the professors of the Law School and several prominent alumni have signified their intention...
...just been celebrated at Columbia recalls to us the festivities of last fall when we were engaged in a similar undertaking, and creates in us a feeling of fellow-interest and cordiality. Columbia's situation in the heart of the city of New York gives her an opportunity to attract to herself many eminent men, and for this she is to be envied. This is an advantage which Harvard does not possess, and probably never will attain, for the course of the progress of the United States is, like that of all other countries, westward, and New England must expect...
...will concentrate on their three nines most naturally. Let this once be done and the base-ball matches between Harvard, Yale and Princeton will be what the New London race and the New York foot-ball match already are. Then and not till then college base-ball will attract greater and more exciting attention than the games of professionals...