Word: attractiveful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This morning's mail came to me with a card from the 1923 Election Committee, calling my attention to the fact that I had not as yet cast my vote in the class election of officers. The Committee's urgent notice failed to attract me to the polls; but it served to crystallise the reasons which have kept me away from them. It is because I think these reasons to be of interest to other undergraduates that I have addressed this letter to the CRIMSON...
...than 5 1-2 percent net on property values, would not only defeat the purpose of the Transportation Act, but would work against the interests of the country, as it would make it, absolutely impossible either to keep up the railroads to a high degree of physical efficiency, or attract a single dollar of new capital for extensions and improvement to provide transportation for the country's growth...
...objected that a sufficient number of men could not be persuaded to attend. To this we answer that if such a meeting could not attract as large an audience as treat which attends a football raily there is something radically wrong with Harvard--viewed as an institution of learning at least...
...effect this change in the constitution it will save certain future students a vast amount of worry. Or, if they prefer, the classes can vote to hold an election for the most popular man in the class--that will accomplish the purpose of the present arrangement and may attract more attention...
...Yard have their champion of offensiveness. A very superficial examination will prove to the unprejudiced that Holyoke House deserves this title. For instance, nine bedrooms and one toilet on a single covered airshaft contribute to form a not altogether pleasant feature. Or if this is insufficient to attract the average person let him take note of the drinking fountains in the slop sinks. In addition, mention might be made of the toilets, the lighting, and ventilation in general, but unfortunately (or fortunately) there is not room for the details; as a matter of fact the mere specification of the various...