Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Why do you cheapen TIME with a red bordered cover ? Is it not strong enough as a current publication to speak for itself with dignity and a cover that suggests its contents ? Must .it call attention to itself with screaming scarlet-and thus attract the masses who would be led to believe that it ranks with the Red Book or similar publications that resort to superficial advertisement ? I used to be proud to place TIME in a prominent position on my study table. Now I am ashamed. Lois J. FISHER...
...Usually we are consulted and made acquainted with our prospective opponents in relay meets. The present arrangement seems to have been made, in part at least, for the publicity which it would attract...
...athletics that are at fault; it is the over-emotionalized over-dramatized intercollegiate spectacle that has been made of football. But obviously there is here no need for funds. With very rare exceptions it more than pays its own way. The athletics that particularly need appropriations are those which attract little or no publicity, which are often under, rather than over-emphasized. These are the smaller major, the minor, and the intramural sports which affect the general student body and are therefore to be encouraged since physical training has properly become a recognized part of the college curriculum. Furthermore, general...
...Philippines be transferred from the War Department to some new bureau or department, that Governor General Wood's military advisers be replaced with civil experts, that the Filipinos be given increasing internal autonomy. Land Laws. The Philippine legislature should amend the land laws, so as to attract U. S. capital to develop, on a large scale, the production of rubber, coffee, sugar, rice, etc. The U. S. Congress should not attempt to interfere with these land laws. Banking. The Federal Reserve system should be extended to the Philippines. Also, Federal land banks should be established to loan money...
...outside world. A number of able professors in the political science department at Columbia have recently made an attempt to show that they are not disconnected from actualities. They have drawn up an effective and sound criticism of the war debts settlements, hoping in doing this to attract the attention of the administration and the people to some of the errors of the present arrangement. Their criticism is constructive. They are not merely abstract thinkers trying to bring their principles before the public eye. But in spite of all this it is exceedingly doubtful whether the statement which they have...