Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...mass meeting for all men interested in track athletics of any kind will be held in Upper Mascachusetts next Tuesday evening, at 7.30 o'clock. Owing to the possibility of the intercollegiate meet being held here, this meeting should attract an especially large crowd. Freshmen are especially urged to attend. Plans for all the spring meets will be outlined and speeches made by the following men: Mr. E. J. Wendell '82, Mr. G. B. Morison '83, Mr. W. F. Garcelon L.'95, Mr. J. W. Hallowell '01, and Mr. E. H. Clark '96. Captain Rust and Mr. Graham will also...
...Graduates' Magazine for March contains a great deal that will be read with much surprise, not only by those who have left the University, but by undergraduates as well. Two topics of keen interest in undergraduate life--football and seminars--are discussed in a way which is sure to attract a harmful notoriety. The article on football, by Professor Hollis, which ends with the surprising statement that it would be best to give up the Yale game, comes from the pen of one who has long been identified with the sport, but has a conclusion not only revolutionary, but entirely...
...extracts from themes have not only an interest of originality, but they serve better than a concocted model to express the point at issue. This freedom, this off-hand manner, is the book's greatest charm, and one that will attract even the casual reader. As a guide for teachers no work could be more desirable; for it strives to suggest rather than to urge the system it describes. A wide use of this book in preparatory schools ought to result shortly in a much higher standard of writing among Freshmen in general and among those who anticipate English...
...critical article on "English and American University Athletics," by John Corbin '92, appears in the October Outing, and ought by reason of its practical value to attract wide attention. The author knows his subject thoroughly, having represented one of the numerous colleges in football and the University itself in track athletics...
Further, the insufficiency of the salaries given to American scholars, discourages productive scholarship by making it necessary that scholars without means go outside their proper field of work to earn money, and the social distinction of scholars is not high enough to attract the best men in the country...