Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class of students. A university club would embrace all classes. It would tend to break up fractions and cliques. It would bring together congenial men, who might not otherwise become acquainted. By the facilities which it would offer in the way of interesting magazines and papers, it would attract a great many men at odd hours in the day. The club rooms would be an excellent place in which to pass the time between recitations, a purpose which the library now meets very imperfectly. Visiting teams and distinguished lecturers to the college could be entertained there by their friends...
...pecuniary reasons. These small colleges, he says, although poorly equipped in laboratories and libraries, are usually strongly supported by a small, enthusiastic body of alumni. "'Tis a small college, your Honor," said Webster in the Dartmouth trial, "but we love her!" This sentiment and these men Mr. Shaler would attract to Harvard, by offering scholarships or presentations to be controlled by the faculty of the smaller college, and awarded to deserving graduates. The university could never, and should never, he says, seek to control the smaller college, for the independence of the relationship would be one of the greatest merits...
...plan under agitation, the plan cannot but fail. For it is absurd in a high degree to imagine that men will substitute for ties which are formed through interests absolutely fundamental in life, one great bond which overlooks distinctions of personality, and must therefore fall far short of attracting individual men with distinct and very often antagonistic tastes. Thus then, there will exist by the side of the club proposed all the social interests now existing. It requires no argument to show which of the two will fall. To attempt by the formation of a common relation, which can claim...
...fold. Those who are already in it will voluntarily avail themselves of religions privileges and, with rare exceptions, remain steadfast in the faith. These are not the students for whose improvement and conversion the college authorities express anxiety. But if compulsion really does not attract, but does repel, those for whose good it is exerted; if it tends to confirm in the irreligious their opposition, and to send them out into the world with - in many cases - a deep-seated aversion for such religious services as they have been forced to attend, is it not folly to maintain such...
...here. He then goes into a very exhaustive study of our system of athletic training, and describes our gymnasium and athletic fields. He also quotes very largely from Dr. Sargent's statements and theories in regard to athletic training. This part of our college life would be bound to attract a Frenchman, and is of great importance as a lesson to the French who have almost no athletics as a nation. Their young men have only fencing, riding, and a little rowing for mere exercise even. Class day is very cleverly described in the article by an abstract from...