Word: attractively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...geographically and intellectually. We still hold the latter, but it is the former that we have lost. The task of getting the best men to the University in the past has been an easy one, in the future we will be faced with a more difficult job. Harvard must attract to it the best men in all lines of education, research and teaching. "If we fail in this regard, there are no educational panaceas which will restore Harvard to its position of leadership...
Harvard must endeavor to draw to its staff the most able investigators and teachers of the world. We have today a faculty of which we may be justly proud but we cannot ignore the fact that it is increasingly difficult to attract from other universities and research institutes the outstanding men whom we desire. I need not stress the necessity of our having at Harvard great scholars and investigators. Our ultimate contribution to society will depend on their scholarly output and their stimulating teaching. What they accomplish and those whom they inspire will be the measure of our success...
...Must Attract Scholars...
...future even more than in the past, we should attract to our student body the most promising young men throughout the whole nation. To accomplish its mission Harvard must be a truly national university. The young men who enter the College and our professional schools are today drawn from no single locality and no single class. Student aid and student employment have enabled many with small means to complete their Harvard course. It is very difficult, however, for a student without any financial resources to continue his education in a privately endowed institution. It is particularly difficult if he comes...
...national academy of learning, are fading rapidly into the past, and their successors do not fall gracefully into the heroic molds. The Department of Philosophy is but the most notorious example of a department whose glories lie chiefly in the past. The causes of Harvard's failure to attract many of the best men are not easy to diagnose, but whatever they may be, the undergraduates will wish Mr. Conant success in his quest for a more lustrous faculty...