Word: beckon
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this is afforded every day in the University. The seriousness and industry of law and business school men is often a revelation to the undergraduate who is bent on enjoying his "four years' loaf." President MacCracken attributes this spirit to self-interest: "The trade, the profession, the definite pursuit, beckon instinctively every hour...
...poor undergraduate, such as bad lecturing, bad prescribed reading, and that abomination the "section-man" (!), he has at least one real suggestion-something not very distantly akin to the Oxford tutorial system. Even if treasures shine from the end of the road of scholarship equal to those which beckon men to athletics (to drive home the brilliance of the metaphor), it is extremely doubtful whether many worthy undergraduates will alter their extra-curriculum activities. It seems as if the undergraduate must be brought to know the pleasure of study itself, the actual exhilaration of intellectual "from." the sense of strength...