Word: attractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the general abolition of requirements, men in charge of History 1 have been proud of the numbers of men they still "attract". They might better consider the divisional big-stick which rounds up students in unproductive fored-labor battalions. Where there should be an open gate to advanced studying there looms a stone wall of requirements. It is squarely up to the division to provide that gateway for students whenever they are stirred by ambition...
...strange figure, a reproduction of a French "medicine" of the 17th century, has been crested to attract public attention to the coming production of Moliere's "Mousieur to Poureesugnae" by the French Club. In a manner characteristic of Meliere, the "medicine" is made the butt of the same satire which is attached to a modern mother...
...demand upon such opportunity as does exist. To keep a college a cross section of the best in American life is therefore more difficult. But the difficulties only heighten the importance of proper steps to maintain our great universities as truly national institutions. The Harvard National Scholarships, designed to attract men of the most promising qualities from every state in the Union, should enhance further Harvard's great influence in the training of each generation to take its part in our democracy...
...professorships it will be established. And one man may be a multitude in himself. Alfred North Whitehead, whose present address is Harvard, may be called a faculty and college of mathematics. The endowment required for one of the new scholarships is $25,000. President Conant has been eager to attract to Cambridge promising students from regions separated from the Eastern colleges by expensive distances and naturally within the orbit of local or State universities. The new scholarships will be a continuation and broadening of the prize fellowships already open to Middle Westerners, the first fruits of Dr. Conant's journey...
...much of recent educational funds in America has been devoted and regard only human beings, The group of especially gifted students, representing all the states, is counted upon to stimulate the minds alike of student body and faculty. The "university professors," answerable directly to the president, seem certain to attract scholars of ability and to test the intellectual standards of the university with a new vigor...