Word: tempting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...been too often shown that the average undergraduate mind thirsts for novelty, and is attracted for the time by anything new, just as younger children are fascinated by some new toy. Class races and club races having now palled upon his appetite, might not an entire change of diet tempt his palate? And with this end in view would it not be possible to use eight-oared shells for the fall races? We believe that there are now some five or six such shells on the rests at the boat-house, which might be made available in such a race...
...That tempt us onward o'er a hidden path...
...tempt Chaldean witchery...
...Senior Class at Yale has petitioned the Faculty to abolish Monday-morning recitations. It appears that these recitations tempt some students to work on Sundays, and the Seniors feel that they cannot conscientiously refrain from calling the attention of their instructors to the terrible fact that some members of the class have been weak enough to devote a part of the day of rest to classics and mathematics...
...specially and diversely educated. The place of the general lawyer is now filled by the marine lawyer, the criminal lawyer, the trust lawyer, and many others. But the growth of Harvard within the last few years has been rather to discourage special attention to any one study, and to tempt the student to rapidly glance over a large portion of the surface-outlines of human thought. A Harvard undergraduate is not yet sufficiently differentiated in mind to be adapted for any one profession or science in the organism of intellectual society; and therefore has not that enthusiasm - always more...