Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...proposed athletic club house for which subscriptions are being raised at Pennsylvania, is a project of sufficient note to attract general attention in collegiate circles. The desirability of bringing the members of athletic teams into close contact, off the field as well as on it, and on a social as well as on an athletic basis, is so apparent that it requires no comment. This purpose, hardly less than that of providing first rate food, is the aim of the usual training table system...
...expect a large measure of success immediately. Above all, it will be a mistake to relax the effort in case it should not meet with immediate success. An important object of the change is to reach out beyond the narrow limits of the present debating set, and gradually attract men who are not now thought of as debaters...
...such a club should continue its existence until graduation, it seems reasonable to suppose that it could at least maintain its position in the class, and probably strengthen it. The successful debaters would presumably acquire more prestige and attract more men into the club from year to year. The class as it grew older would appreciate more keenly the service rendered to it by its debaters. Finally, by gradual association, and by identification with the class in respect to name, officers and membership, a feeling of responsibility could be aroused which the present unattached clubs wholly lack...
...Association visits his room each day. An excellent chance is here given for college men to study the lives of the sailors who make daily use of the room. During the year about one hundred sailors have daily availed themselves of this opportunity for reading, and writing letters. To attract sailors to this room from the city saloons, entertainments at which refreshments are served have been given there monthly...
...members of the two institutions. Having survived the prejudice which they at first awakened, they are today a most influential factor in English university life. Each society has a club-house, containing rooms for debating and reading, beside dining halls and rooms for social meetings. The weekly debates attract great numbers of men and awaken keen interest...