Word: attractively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undergraduates at the University of Virginia are enthusiastic boxers. The heavyweight champion at Virginia enjoys the social prestige which at comparable institutions goes to the football captain. The boxing team, has won 23 dual meets in a row, four consecutive Southern Conference championships. Its bouts attract crowds of 5,000, many of them female relatives and friends. Last week, the Virginia boxing team journeyed to Annapolis for the big meet of the year against Navy. Six thousand tickets, priced at 75? each and allotted to undergraduates and alumni, were sold on issue. A few were resold for as much...
...power house or laundry, and what would then become of the money spent in patronizing Orozco. Can anyone say that a mural depicting the growth of a distinctive American civilization is a contribution to productive scholarship? Will it ever go out to the library shelves of the land and attract bright young western scholars to Dartmouth who can help to make it a truly national university? There is fortunately no indication that Harvard will ever recognize, much less patronize, a living artist...
...discovered in Paris fortnight ago in the person of Professor Andre Mailfert. For years he has lectured about the so-called ''Loire School" of 18th Century provincial furniture of inlaid lemon wood. Its leader, he said, was a certain Jean François Hardy. Hoping to attract attention to the real qualities of his lemon-wood masterpieces. Professor Mailfert deliberately admitted that he had not only invented Cabinetmaker Hardy, but during the past five years had kept a factory of 200 workmen busy turning out the entire product of the "Loire School." Only foreign decorators, he insisted...
...improvements in scenery from the general style of the last few years, but those who are away from home will want to visit the exhibition some time before they leave the Hub of the Universe. Several contests in log-rolling, wood chopping, and canoetilting are held each day to attract the interest of those who are not there to see the sporting equipment. In addition, there are exhibitions of fly casting that cannot be equalled...
...visited Quebec, the fine triple-track toboggan slide which extends from the shoulder of the old Citadel and runs past the Chatean Frontenac affords the thrill of a lifetime. However less violent sports of skating on the lake or rink and tramping over snow-bound plains on snowshoes also attract a large share of the visitors. Curling likewise is available for those who enjoy...