Word: attractively
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...were to fall below the standards of the past. If such proves to be the case, the advantages accruing from a more minute treatment of the question under the three steps of the new system will hardly justify its permanent adoption, for preliminaries should be so arranged as to attract not only the best but the most debaters to compete. We hope therefore that tonight will see many aspirants for the Princeton debate in the Fogg Lecture Room...
...Such a plan will, moreover, indicate the demands of the College and the vacancies in the grounds. The opportunity for a man to build a creditable monument would be plainly apparent and would attract a donor-but what donor will be attract to Harvard if the result of his outlay is more than likely to be criticized by men of good judgment, as marring the symmetry of the grounds? In a word a well prepared scheme will attract, and a confused condition repel, a benefactor...
...position to know. Nevertheless it is extremely doubtful whether circumstances do not produce a biased selection of candidates not in the least contemplated. The candidates for a Freshman team who have made a name for themselves as athletes in the interscholastic league or at some Eastern preparatory schools, will attract the eye of the coach more naturally than an equally good man whose capabilities are unknown...
...meeting will attract to Cambridge an unusually large number of visiting graduates, and a special effort should be made by all the clubs to give them a hospitable reception, in spite of the proximity of the examinations...
...Resolved, That we, the members of Harvard University, in mass meeting assembled, do express it as our earnest opinion that there is a great and increasing need of a University Club containing conveniences such as will attract men of all circumstances, with annual dues sufficiently low to deter no man from joining...