Word: lure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early education in the South Boston High School. Upon his graduation he entered Fordham College and it was there that he received his first intensive baseball training, catching on the Fordham nine. At the close of his undergraduate life, Mr. Slattery decided to enter Tufts Dental School but the lure of the diamond had too strong a hold on him, and in 1901 he signed his first big league contract as a catcher for the Bostor...
There is a tradition which grows up around all "sanctums" and "holies of holies," that makes them doubly attractive on account of their very sanctity. At certain colleges, no doubt, half the lure of secret societies lies in their forbidden buildings; just as in an earlier age the vulgar stood in curious wonder outside the inner shrine which only the initiate could enter...
...college men, supposedly thoughtful, reasoning and broadminded, sufficiently imaginative to see beyond the ends of their noses can succumb to the lure of the Ku Klux Klan, founded as it is no bitterness and opposition, is extraordinary. How a young man can give up his individuality, virtually sell his soul for $10, to an organization so full of hypocrisy, selfishness and the spirit of the Dark Ages, can only be accounted for on the grounds of its appeal to his racial or religious prejudices, or his love of the romantic and mysterious, or possibly his inborn American craving to belong...
...quite evident that the tunnel had seen much use at one period of the university's existence. In fact, we learn from obscure references in the records that the lure of the city was once considered a grave problem by the Circle of the Elders. As far as we can make out they took no action on the matter, and the danger remedied itself. Either the tunnel was deliberately stopped up by the students, for fear of encroachments of visiting Incas from the metropolis; or else in the revival of intellectual interest during the golden age it was neglected...
...produce the best athlete and the best player is to encourage the professional if only to create and maintain a standard by which all who go in for sport may measure their own performance. But to attempt to put all sport on a professional footing and make the lure the prize won and public applause, and not the sport itself, would be a national disaster. There has been too much of it already...