Word: attracted
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Some seminars are still restricted to members of only one House, notably a Kirkland House study of "The Art of the Cinema." S. Andrews, Jr., Assistant Dean of the College, explained the restriction: "A popular subject like this would attract too many people...
Apart from his talent for picking good material and good talent, he knows how to keep alive shows that are too sickly (or, occasionally, too good) to attract audiences by themselves. His own best flack, Merrick uses up pressagents like paper towels. For Clutterbuck, his first show, he had "Mr. Clutterbuck" paged in Manhattan's busiest hotels. For the benefit of the 1,600 newsmen boring themselves to death at Princess Grace's wedding, Merrick skywrote above Monaco, WHEN IN NEW YORK, SEE "FANNY." Some of his schemes are ordinary (he scattered sawdust and cowboys under the Destry...
Another reason for encouraging "open" seminars, Rudolph explained, is that some seminars attract speakers "who are not repeatedly available." To exclude interested students from discussion with the seminar-leaders is extremely unwise, he said...
Wilson changed their minds-one reason for his forthcoming appointment as president of the prestigious American Council on Education. A professional administrator, he did a remarkable job of remodeling his big main campus (19,500 students) and its five smaller branches around the state. Wilson raised salaries to attract better teachers, made Texas the first state university in the country to require entrance tests for all students. He launched a $35 million building program, aimed at scientific prestige with a new computer center and an atom smasher. He even persuaded the regents to stop spending the income from the university...
...emergency nature--is financial aid to public schools, of all kinds, in all states. Despite an annual need for 110,000 new classrooms, the United States has provided only 70,000 a year; teachers' salaries are deplorably low and the profession has been unable to attract an adequate number of men and women to handle the increasing school population. The Kennedy Administration must ask for an annual Federal expenditure of $30 per pupil, and add to this sum another $20 per pupil in those low-income states which have very little of their own money to spend on education...