Word: attracts
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...superseded by others less careful and sagacious - is not connected with the observation train, but attaches rather to a theory of management hinted at by the writer who supplied to the Nation its report of the boat race. His suggestion that perhaps the addition of subsidiary 'events' might attract a larger crowd to the Harvard-Yale contest, would, if adopted by the managers, have a tendency to put more lives in peril annually than the running of a dozen observation trains. Easily as one may abuse the superlative degree, I am surely within the limits of moderation in saying that...
...will be impossible to produce the play before next May; when it is given, it will be repeated a sufficient number of times for all who care to see it to have an opportunity of doing so. From the interest which the announcement of it has excited, it will attract not a few strangers to Cambridge...
BOSTON THEATRE. - 7.30 P.M.; Matinee, Saturday, at 2. "Voyagers in Southern Seas; or, The Children of Captain Grant," continues to attract large audiences, and holds the boards until further notice. On Sunday, grand Concert: Levy and the Spanish Students...
...Glee Club Concert, in behalf of the University Boat Club, will be given in Sanders Theatre on May 24. This announcement should be sufficient to attract a large audience from the students and their friends, for the objects of the concert deserve the support of all Harvard students, and an especially bright programme is promised. Besides this, owing to the restrictions that have been imposed upon the Glee Club the past year or two, the opportunities we have of hearing it are extremely few in number. The Club now has many fine voices, its selections are for the most part...
...Messrs. Macmillan & Co., says: "The same author's Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb has already made a name for itself in this country; but his Grammar is as yet unknown here. Such a work from a scholar of recognized eminence on the subject will, no doubt, attract attention...