Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...beginning of the dissertation pick out a brilliant passage from your Sophomore themes. This will attract attention; and if it seem abrupt, the objection against abrupt beginnings is not well founded. [See Hill's Rhet., Book II. Chap. VI.] A similar quotation somewhat longer and, if possible, more brilliant will make a good conclusion. The intervening part, the body of the dissertation, should be carefully arranged, and have several marked divisions. Such divisions encourage the reader, for, without counting the remaining pages, he can see that he is drawing nearer the end; and they also are extremely handy when...
...lose no time in going to Sever's to secure their seats. The proportion of students among the audience the last two years has been smaller than one would expect. Is it not a comment on our musical taste that a good classical concert but a few steps off attracts such a mere sprinkling of students, while the songs of the seductive Soldene draw full houses of Harvard men in town? Lovers of music may congratulate themselves that they are to hear the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra at all the concerts. The concerts are to be conducted, not by Thomas...
...instructors who have brought about this change, and have labored to make the contest something more than the dreary affair it has usually been. We wish, now, to urge upon all students the importance of attending it. Prize speaking is a matter of college interest, and should attract more than a handful of listeners. In other colleges it has a dignity and importance which it must lack here as long as empty benches are the only audience and no one cares to know who wins. It is to be hoped that Sanders Theatre will this year be well filled, especially...
...been received from the Jamaica Plain Club. Although the project of a combination regatta has not met with the encouragement and support from the amateur clubs of Boston and vicinity which was expected, there is a fair prospect of our having two interesting races. The single-sculls will attract no little attention, and the Union and Harvard four-oars ought to make a good race. It is a matter of regret, however, that none of the associations challenged is willing to send a six-oared crew. The race which it was hoped would take place, May 25, between...
...well-known fact that some electives are much more popular than others, and attract a much larger number of students; and we had always supposed that the instructors not only recognized this, but even took a just pride in it, considering a crowded section a tribute to their method of handling the subject. It was, therefore, with great surprise, to say the least, that we heard from a friend of an instructor in a deservedly popular elective who announced his intention of making the course as difficult as possible, and of giving a hard examination-paper "for the purpose...