Word: attractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dartmouth has decided to go big time in its endeavors to attract the crowds to its football games. The band has been outfitted with a brand new glockenspiel which will rival those of Harvard and Yale...
...efficient and sensible administrator, Harvard's Conant has tried to attract able scholars to Harvard and keep them there by easing classroom and tutorial work, setting up "roving professorships" to cut across departmental lines. As a man who spent 20 fruitful years in the laboratory without closing his eyes to the classics, Dr. Conant has small patience with those who complain that research must not be overemphasized at the expense of teaching. To that charge he likes to cite the account by Edward Gibbon of the Greek scholars in loth Century Constantinople...
...that the last of this species was given up for dead in 1932. Three survivors remained on Martha's Vineyard until 1928, dwindled to a ten-year-old heath cock that regularly appeared at its traditional courting field, ''boomed" and cockled in a forlorn effort to attract a mate. Efforts to mate it with the prairie chicken proving unsuccessful, the lonely fowl abandoned its solitary courtship in the spring of 1930, was seen for the last time in March...
...spirit of intelligent inquiry among her graduates. Only insofar as this exists will Harvard's future sons be prepared to receive instruction and her professors stimulated to give it. Such organizations as the Copeland Alumni Association show that this spirit is vital, that the big men continue to attract their listeners long after the prescribed period of study has run its course. Harvard University is fortunate to be supported by a wide awake, interested body of students of all ages and walks of life...
...that far behind in popular news of the world of science that men have learned to attract copper with magnets and I never heard...