Word: attracted
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...public claims on its antiquities, it remains an open question whether the university, like its Ivy League peers, will also attract accusations that it possesses looted treasures...
Smider hopes to follow Kidd’s performance with another similar late-night session to attract more undergraduates. According to Smider, it is up to the students to reach out to professors that they want to see behind...
...today’s world of recruiting, coaches like Tommy Amaker face a challenge: Harvard can be a tough sell for a student who is being recruited by colleges outside the Ivies that will pay athletes to come. Coaches’ successes depend on their ability to attract these sorts of players. Appealing to talented players for whom, sports aside, Harvard would not otherwise be an option is one attractive path. There’s another, less talked-about problem too. Athletes who feel a weaker connection to Harvard outside of sports are more likely to stay dedicated to their...
...Finally, since Harvard commands a large endowment and a great ability to attract the most promising students, the University might use this moment as a way of trying to effect change in the college athletic culture. This is not to say that we should have no athletic program, merely that we should be happy with a mediocre one (that may become excellent organically). Perhaps paradoxically, by accepting mediocrity in this area, Harvard can resume striving for excellence in areas that matter more...
...swarm a seated, stoic John Harvard. While the statue—the third most photographed in the United States—and its supposedly lucky golden toe act as the hub of tourist activity in Harvard Yard, other statues and paintings that adorn the Yard manage to attract little more than dust—and maybe a protective tarp or two. But both students and Harvard staff agree that their neglect is due less to student apathy than to a dearth of readily available information about these works.Tucked away near the sunken entrance to Pusey Library lies an Alexander Calder...