Word: attracts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...plans of these liberals are rapidly taking definite shape, and what they propose to do in case they find themselves in the majority, is stated on the first page. Whether this plan will work the most good to the university many will no doubt question; but that it will attract a large number of students to Harvard is most probable, and in this way at least, the change will conduce to the advantage of the university...
...next point in the new requirements which will attract the attention is the radical change proposed in the scientific department. At present the incoming classes come to Cambridge with a superficial knowledge of the natural sciences which enables them, it is true, to pass their entrance examinations, but which falls far short of any desirable standard. This state of affairs is attributable to the fact that the preparatory schools fail to make adequate provisions for a thorough study of these branches. It is now proposed to compel the candidates for admission to obtain a suitable "fit," by demanding a laboratory...
...economy of the institution. The workers, however, are necessary to the scholarship of the university, and it is only as they outnumber the others that the standard of learning can be advanced. The way, however, to increase the number of earnest students here, is to seek to attract them by the excellence of the instruction offered; and the easiest way of so attracting them is by individual instructors extending their reputation outside the college walls...
...Rome and England-belong to the same type ; the type usually described as unwritten, because in the main their rules and principles rest far more on usage than on any organic statute or body of statutes. In contrast with these is a class of Constitutions now beginning to attract more notice, and illustrated by those of Switzerland and the United States ; Constitutions usually know as written, because they are wholly contained in written enactments. But the current fashion of expressing, this distinction is unsatisfactory. It does not indicate the true nature of the difference. The real and essential difference...
...only to the business men of Boston, for whom the course is especially designed, but also for all who are interested in the study of Political Economy. The lectures to be delivered by Professor Sumner, of Yale, and by Dr. Taussig, of our own political economy department, ought to attract the attention of all Harvard men who are at present engaged in the study of this subject, and, the lectures being free, we venture to predict that the college will be well represented at them...