Word: attractively
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lecture by Dr. Laughlin tomorrow evening on the "Sub-Treasury System" will, without doubt, attract a large audience. That the students are deeply interested in these practical lectures relating to the political interests of the country, is manifest from the number who crowded Sever Hall last Monday evening. The lecture tomorrow embraces a subject which is of especial interest at the present time, when there is so much controversy concerning the subject of systems of banking and finance. Dr. Laughlin is a clear and able lecturer, and his exposition of this subject must be comprehensive and interesting...
...semi-centennial last year. It is established in about twenty of the leading colleges of the country, and numbers among its members who take an active part in the society, some of the most prominent clergymen, lawyers, professors, journalists, and other professional men in the country. The annual dinners attract large numbers of members, of whom there are more than one hundred and fifty residing in Boston, and more than five hundred in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
...hope that the interest as well as the importance of the subject will attract a large audience to greet Prof. Lyon tonight. Any person who neglects this rare opportunity can not fail to regret it afterward...
...have a good game of ball, or should go down to the river and have a row, is most natural and commendable, but that they should form clubs for training, and spend months in the process, and have grand public contests before thousands all over the country, and attract the professional roughs with their betting and drinking to the grand show, in all of which study is neglected, and must be neglected, is an abomination of the first order. It is a shame that college presidents are actually promoting this demoralizing system. It would seem as if these worthies thought...
...become part of the happy long ago. Everything seems to have come to a standstill. Foot-ball, for which the fall regatta was abandoned that it might occupy all our attention, seems to take it out in occupying. The cricket club is non est, and cannot attract enough attention to get up a decent funeral. Base-ball, towards which we had somewhat of a leaning a year ago, seems to have lost all its leaners, and the only thing which appears to have any life is our great and only repudiated lacrosse association...