Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...engaged in some other sport to come out for the team. Although the spring match is already considered of more importance than that held in the fall, being for the intercollegiate championship, this year, with Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania in addition to the usual contestants, it will attract more attention than ever before. The Harvard team made a good showing last spring and won the match; but as Princeton needs only one more victory to obtain the intercollegiate trophy for good, that university will now put forth every effort to win next month, and for the Harvard team...
...there were more academic distinction to be gained by winning one of these prizes, they would undoubtedly attract more attention than they do at present, and it seems as though every possible means should be taken to gain this end; for, as incentives to original research and means of raising the standard of scholarship they cannot be valued too highly. It has always been the custom, however, not to award the prizes until autumn and then there is no special occasion at which the names of the winners are announced together. As a result most students never even hear...
Beginning with this year the advisory committee on debating has decided to abolish intercollegiate freshman debates because they attract general attention to what is apparently the debating strength of the university but really that of preparatory schools. This action leaves the present Freshman club without any final important debate to prepare for, and the time has now come when something of this kind is needed to keep up the interest of all the members...
...choice of periodicals to be placed on file seems at first a rather strange one, but it was made by a committee after noticing carefully what papers and magazines the men who use the room cared for and could appreciate. The magazines chosen are intended to interest and attract men to the room as well as to instruct...
...growth of sentiment is away from declamation which perhaps once flourished in the University, and toward debate. This is shown by the fact that the Boylston Prize contests which used to pack Sanders Theatre now gather hardly a handful. The intercollegiate debates on the contrary are better attended and attract more interest each year. The College offers no opportunity for training in declamation while there has been a substantial growth in the instruction given in debate. English 6 has increased in numbers and English 30 has been added; English 10 looks toward debate rather than declamation...