Word: attractive
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...intimated that scholarships have been conferred by the Harvard Faculty in order to attract athletic men. In answer to this charge it is only necessary to state, if indeed any statement is necessary, that all scholarships in Harvard University are conferred by special votes of a Faculty or of the Academic Council, and confirmed by the Corporation; and that in both bodies the only grounds of bestowal are good scholarship and need. It should perhaps be added, in specific answer to the allegation that "a number of the Harvard Eleven are at present beneficiaries of the college funds," that only...
...These contests and their results attract a class of fellows to college that have no proper place there. The consequences are that a bad tone, morally and intellectually, is given to the college, interest in scholarly pursuits is decreased, degrees are given to many without the slightest real claim. Instead of an atmosphere of scholarship, the tendency is towards an atmosphere of professional training. The professors find little responsiveness in their class rooms, become disgusted, and do not give out the best that is in them...
Professor George P. Fisher of Yale university is to write a series on "The Nature and Method of Revelation," which will attract every Bible student. Bishop Potter of New York will be one of several prominent writers who are to contribute a series of "Present-day Papers" on living topics, and there will be art papers, timely articles, etc., etc., and the choicest pictures that the greatest artists and engravers can produce...
...second College Conference meeting will be held this evening in Sever. This meeting promises to be of unusual interest and should attract a large number of men from the fact that the president of the college will talk on what students can do for the college. It needs no assurance in these columns that whatever President Eliot shall say to the students will be well worth listening to, and upon this subject his remarks will be of especial interest. There are none of us who have not the welfare of Harvard at heart primarily, and we should all welcome...
Next Wednesday the cricket eleven will play a match game with Harverford on Holmes field. As this will be the first opportunity of seeing what sort of work our team is doing, it should prove of sufficient interest to attract a good many spectators. The Haverford eleven have been under the charge of their professional coach, Woodcock, since early in the year. Nevertheless, the chances of Harvard's being victorious are good, especially if the players see that the college takes an interest in their work...