Word: attractiveful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second reason for our failure to attract athletes and men with the right stuff in them is the difficulty men find in working their way through Harvard. The chances of a boy earning his board here are less than half what they were ten years...
...satisfying their view of what a newspaper should be-an educated man's paper, liberal, refined, in good taste. Mr. Curtis changed the Post into what he thought a paper should be-a paper for news, a go-getter for circulation, the kind of intellectual pabulum that could attract a large audience. In making the change he immediately lost Christopher Morley, that most genial of columnists. In general, how ever, he did not destroy the paper of the bygone intellectual giants, because it was no longer their paper. The Post had passed their high-water-mark a generation earlier...
...year's concerts, which was held a week ago, Dr. Davison expects the series to be an even greater success than it was last year. He has attempted to make the programs lighter in nature this year, and expressed his belief to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday that they would attract a greater number of college...
...believe it does, said Mr. Pickwich." Here the analogy falls down; for although, contrary to Mr. Pickwick's belief, London was not concerned with Eatons will, the Demorcratic convention at the University will in all probability attract a great deal of attention in the world of national politics. The questions which have been tormenting party leaders for the last six months and graying the hair of managers of countless dark horses, favorite sons, and white hopes will be brought out into the open for a brief unofficial but illuminating airing...
...will agree with Dr. David Kinley, President of the University of Illinois, that the people "who are running around in circles, beating tin pans and waving their arms to attract the attention of the world...to the utter inadequacy of our colleges and universities, the incapacity of their faculties and the imbecility of their students, need not take up much of our consideration or time." Such an attitude, however, smacks of the expedient of pouring oil on troubled waters. As long as there are any obvious flaws in the educational machinery there will be a spluttering of pens...