Word: attractively
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is some complaint that the ringing of the bell for Vespers is not of the sort to attract attention. If one happens to be busy or some little distance from the Yard the sound of the bell does not reach one. Men who hardly ever missed a service last year have missed all but one or two this year. The attendance at these services, which for several years have been the most popular of all our religious services, has certainly fallen off this year. The decrease in attendance seems to be among the college men, and if this...
...Magazine opens with an interesting study of Canadian journalism by Walter Blackburn Harte. It is an article that will attract journalists and laymen in every corner of America, and it will appeal to the former more especially from the fact that the writer is a newspaper man and knows the difficulties of the craft from the inside. Mr. Hart's remarks, "In a Corner at Dodsley's," on the tendencies of contemporary literature to dispense altogether with literary men, are animated and amusing. Mr. Harte says: "The days of literary men in literature is over. It is now the triumphal...
...feature of the November Century, however, which is likely to attract the most attention is probably the new novel, "The Naulahka," by Rudyard Kipling and Walcott Bolestier, the latter a well-known American now living in London. This is Mr. Kipling's first experience in collaboration, and the story is not only international in authorship but also in plot. It opens on the bridge of an irrigating ditch in a Western State, and at the close of the first instalment there is already an indication of a change of the scene to India. The motive of the story...
...Intelligent legislation better than violent agitation.- (b) Law needed to overcome inertia of employers and to secure uniformity of application: Uniform Hours of Labor, 138-139; Report of the Illinois Bureau of Statistics, 1886, p. 467.- (c) Law should be passed early in Massachusetts since short hours attract skilled and cotented labor, making intelligent and industrious citizens: Uniform Hours of Labor...
...first of the two games with Dartmouth will be played today. The opportunity which these two games on consecutive days will afford to judge of the nine's work should not fail to attract large numbers of men to the field, especially as there has been no game since Friday. The games will be called at four...