Word: repell
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...attract a donor-but what donor will be attract to Harvard if the result of his outlay is more than likely to be criticized by men of good judgment, as marring the symmetry of the grounds? In a word a well prepared scheme will attract, and a confused condition repel, a benefactor...
...Smith.- (B) People do not vote against their party's ticket for legislature in the chance that a bad Senatorial nomination may be made.- (2) Under proposed system his character would greatly hurt his chance of election.- (X) He would be directly before the people.- (y) It would repel the independent vote.- (z) It would gain no votes for him.- (b) Such a man would be less likely to be nominated.- (1) Legislative caucus is not now restrained from making bad nominations by fear of defeat.- (x) Caucus nominee is sure of election.- (2) Caucus cannot be trusted to choose...
...living a Christian life, we must make it the expression of a noble and confident belief. We should put the spirit of our religion into our every act in such a cheerful and manly way that others will be attracted to it. We must be careful not to repel men by obtruding our religion upon them...
...never succeed in winning their way into their class-mates good graces. (I do not here include the few men in every class who are truly worthy of contempt and disapproval.) These men may be naturally good and agreeable fellows, who come here without knowing anyone, repel those with whom they come in contact by an unfortunate lack of manners or by a hampering poverty, and then are frozen up into themselves by the snobbery which they encounter, and lose all the sweetness of college life in the solitude of their rooms. Exactly such cases are comparatively rare, I know...
...hands are not to be attributed to Harvard ill luck. There can no longer be any doubt of the fact that Yale is essentially a more athletic college than Harvard. The reason for this is patent. The social conditions at Yale attract athletes; the social conditions at Harvard repel them. Yale's very being is bound up in athletics. She sacrifices everything for athletic victory...