Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quenching agent the remodeling, or we might say, the cospomolization of the existing society. The recent communication under the heading "A Boost for Back Bay" suggests the impossibility of changing the existing order of things. Then my answer is, "do not puzzle over why Harvard fails to attract westerners". We must choose between two alternatives, a national representation in the College, or the present social order: which brings me to the point I wish to make...
...effort to attract a greater number of spectators to the meet, arrangements have been made to hold the Tech-Columbia fencing meet at the same time, and a dance afterwards...
...news in another column of today's "Herald," concerning the proposed Intercollegiate Conference to be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology next April, should attract enthusiastic support and attention from every American undergraduate. Our college papers and fraternity magazines have broken down the college provincialism and ignorance of undergraduate life and organization at institutions other than our own, but they are not able to carry on a systematic discussion of undergraduate problems such as the conference will be able to do. Actual meeting with the leaders in the same line of activities from other colleges and the comparison...
...which gives the occupations of all living men who have at any time been registered as students in Harvard University shows that an exceedingly small proportion of them are engaged in transportation work. The same is true of the alumni of other universities. Railroad service, it appears, has not attracted the college-trained men. There are of course, notable exceptions. It may be cited, for example, that of the five railroad presidents who formed the Railroads' War Board, and who had almost complete control of, the administration of all of the railroads in the country during the nine months preceding...
There is then, a real need in all departments of railroading, but particularly in the operating department, for educated men of the right type. There is also a fine opportunity for useful and fascinating service. Railroading by its very nature should attract red-blooded men. It is true that the railroads in the past have been slow to recognize that need and to afford that opportunity to the educated man, but their attitude is changing to one of encouragement, as the need of such men in the organization is more generally recognized...