Word: attractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important functions is that of supporting adequate scholarly work in research. We endeavor to bring this about by over staffing the University, so that our faculty may have sufficient time to devote to scholarly pursuits. We endeavor to discover men of the highest intellectual qualities. We endeavor, too, to attract students of enterprise and capacity, who want to advance themselves in intellectual pursuits. We have endeavored to give wide freedom to the members of our faculty, especially in the fields in which they are experts. We have endeavored to avoid programs and the acceptance of gifts contingent upon the maintenance...
...attracted to the University, one must consider with care the position of the new comer. The name of Harvard, many feel, is no longer alone adequate to attract a scholar. More tangible recognition of his worth must be offered to bring even very small mountains to our Mohammed. For many years feeling has run high against the age-old Harvard custom of promotions on the basis of academic seniority. In the past, slow indeed has been the rise to fame of the young mind. He has had to wade patiently through a series of one and three year appointments before...
...Harvard is to attract the most able scholars, she must have something to offer them. The best are long since through with the preliminaries of a few published documents that should no longer be an essential to advance. They, and the younger men who have not found time to publish, but who have been eager in the new changes in education, must have some incentive to come to Harvard. If ideas of education are changing in one way, they may in another. Promotion to the scholar is a necessity and an interest. The best will not come to a Harvard...
Frederick Carder was born in England some 60 years ago, son of a pottery-making father. He journeyed to Corning, N. Y. and in 1903 founded his own glass works which he named Steuben after the county. He managed to attract attention by producing a highly colored glassware almost indistinguishable from the then secretly prepared Bohemian glass. When Corning Glass Works took over Steuben in 1918, Glassmaker Carder remained as head of the smaller division. Last week in Cincinnati he was presented with the Charles Fergus Binns medal for excellence in design by the American Ceramic Society...
...study of Colonial administration. He likes to monkey with engines; he drives his own car. But his hobbies are safer: trout fishing and collecting butterflies. In 1926 he married dark-haired Princess Astrid of Sweden after a courtship that set lady-novelists' hearts aflutter. In order not to attract attention Prince Leopold paid flying visits to Sweden in a third class railway coach, carrying his own bags. People thought he was a new butler. Announcing the engagement, beaming King Albert said...