Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These are all relatively unimportant, however, for there is one phase of Harvard on which money must be spent if the University is to retain its prestige, and it must be spent at once--to build up and maintain the faculty. If constant effort is not made to attract great teachers and scholars, if constant opportunities are not provided the teachers and scholars already at Harvard, the faculty must of necessity deteriorate. Many have felt, and not without some reason, that over the past decade too much attention has been given the problem of building up the physical side...
Made public almost simultaneously with President Lowell's criticism of big-business athletics, news that the annual Yale-Harvard baseball series is to be played this year with coaches absent from the bench is likely to attract considerable interest...
Even though Harvard will not participate in the races the meet should attract considerable local interest both because of the new pool and because of the caliber of the contestants. Coach Wilson of Northwestern will send a full team of natators to defend the first place laurels that his charges won last year. Michigan will also continue its athletic relations with Harvard, begun in baseball and football, by sending a squad of swimmers that last year ranked high in Big Ten aquatic circles...