Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Juniors in cap and gown always attract the attention of their classmates and of students from colleges where four years of study is the minimum required for a degree. Three year graduates, scorning the ways of the ordinary mortal and completing in three years what takes others four, make up an unusually large proportion of the graduating body at Harvard...
...changes for next year in the corps of assistant deans attract attention to that efficient body from many who are not personally acquainted with the workings of University 4. It has been said that Dean Briggs was the first man who ever became a dean without losing his popularity. He carried with him into the office the sympathy and friendly understanding which have made him the best of guides; he established for the University, and as an example for all American colleges the ideal that a dean is not a mere disciplinary officer but a counsellor and friend. The personal...
...Aldo Sorani in II Secolo, Milan journal, wrote bitterly regretting the palmy days of Italian universities, in which those of Padua and Bologna used to attract the students of the world...
...Hall at ten o'clock this morning and accordingly, there I appeared shortly after ten armed with several books and a handful of papers. Sitting down in the nearest seat on which lay a bluebook, I took out my papers and began eyeing them half surreptitiously. This failing to attract much notice at first (I found that so many other men in the room were doing the same thing that I was almost inconspicuous) I deliberately took out one of the books which I had brought with me, opened it, and began comparing the passage before me with an imaginary...
...that he was a British naval captain being given a dinner by the Chamber of Commerce. The capitalistic parasite! When I heard that, I could have made him smart, exposed him before the crowd. But nobody seemed to take any further notice of me, try though I would to attract attention. Fools...