Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...well as excellent facilities for playing tennis. If then, games like the Haughton Cup series, are abandoned for lack of men, the system should hardly be condemned for failure to furnish opportunities. And there is no reason to believe that such a regime as president Foster advocates, would attract more, if as many men. With football played only between classes and groups, there would be no more incentive to play than there is in the present class or scrub games. Moreover there would be lacking the strongest present incentive--the chance to make a University team...
Professor Perry's book, however, approaches Carlyle in a sympathetic spirit, and presents him to readers in a way to attract and induce the perusal of Carlyle's own work. This is its purpose, as the explanatory title, "How to Know Him," indicates. Professor Perry passes from a penetrating and concise account of Carlyle's youth and intellectual growth to a discussion of his literary theory and its application in his various works. Quotation predominates for Carlyle is allowed to "explain himself and his views, as adequately as the inexorable count of pages will permit...
...members of the class of 1919 who wish to compete for the position of manager and assistant manager of the Freshman swimming team should report at Matthews 5 Monday at 1 o'clock. It is expected that this competition will attract an unusually large number of Freshman as the competition is short and no experience is necessary. Last year was the first under the Present system of Freshman managers and it proved extremely satisfactory...
Members of the Pierian Sodality have replied to the editorial printed in the CRIMSON yesterday, by a communication printed in this issue. The fact has been overlooked that there are a large number of experienced musicians in the University which the society has been unable to attract. Moreover, while the Sodality itself draws a distinction between the social organization and the orchestra, outsiders will not draw the same distinction, to the disadvantage of the orchestra. Discrimination against eligible men on account of race or religion is alleged and a spirit of dissatisfaction is the result. Such discrimination should...
...College course, along with the Junior Dance and the Senior Spread. The new function has been given the distinctive name of "Jubilee," and is unusual in idea as well. While it will centre around an interdormitory singing contest, it will contain more than a bare hint of social attraction. The competition, of course, will be "the thing." But in addition there will be a reception, a concert, a buffet supper, and a dance,--surely enough to attract even those who hitherto have taken no pleasure in listening to men's choruses. The occasion will be both educative and enjoyable. Everything...