Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Hockey has been gaining rapidly in popularity. It is played through a long season and is the only winter sport. Certainly it is strenuous and requires skill and endurance. While it does not attract as much attention and stimulate as much interest as football or the other major sports, the game has been gaining favor rapidly and now receives the support of the entire student body. As an organized sport it is far ahead of the other minor sports in its strenuousness, requirements of skill and endurance, and popularity. Standing out above the other minor sports and possessing...
...season tickets, these to be supplied, at a reasonable price, to students of the University, or members of the Harvard Athletic Association. At the close of the 1911-12 season, the CRIMSON gave as an argument in favor of the plan that "not only would the lessened cost attract many to whom the cost may now be prohibitive, but the ease of securing tickets and the feeling that one is going to sit in a Harvard crowd would bring many to the games who now hate to bother with special tickets for each game and feel out of place when...
...country. Notwithstanding the unusual value of the privilege to come into personal contact with such men, it cannot be said the students avail themselves of it to any significant extent. Whenever prominent men visit us to speak upon the political or social questions of the day, they generally attract extremely large audiences. Consequently, that we should fail to meet men so prominent in the religious sphere is indeed difficult to understand...
...much too early, of course, to obtain definite registration figures, but it may be said that, with two notable exceptions, all of our institutions of higher learning have made gains in enrolment. Harvard's Freshman class is larger and more representative than ever before. The University's attempt to attract to its halls men from the West and from the public high schools in general is surely proving successful. Yale expects about two hundred more students than it had last year. At Wellesley, Tufts, Dartmouth, Bates, Colby, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Vermont, Boston University, in fact at all colleges except Williams...
These three competitions starting tonight should attract many men who desire an opportunity for broadening themselves, and for gaining a thorough knowledge of University life...