Word: luring
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...college men, supposedly thoughtful, reasoning and broadminded, sufficiently imaginative to see beyond the ends of their noses can succumb to the lure of the Ku Klux Klan, founded as it is no bitterness and opposition, is extraordinary. How a young man can give up his individuality, virtually sell his soul for $10, to an organization so full of hypocrisy, selfishness and the spirit of the Dark Ages, can only be accounted for on the grounds of its appeal to his racial or religious prejudices, or his love of the romantic and mysterious, or possibly his inborn American craving to belong...
...quite evident that the tunnel had seen much use at one period of the university's existence. In fact, we learn from obscure references in the records that the lure of the city was once considered a grave problem by the Circle of the Elders. As far as we can make out they took no action on the matter, and the danger remedied itself. Either the tunnel was deliberately stopped up by the students, for fear of encroachments of visiting Incas from the metropolis; or else in the revival of intellectual interest during the golden age it was neglected...
...produce the best athlete and the best player is to encourage the professional if only to create and maintain a standard by which all who go in for sport may measure their own performance. But to attempt to put all sport on a professional footing and make the lure the prize won and public applause, and not the sport itself, would be a national disaster. There has been too much of it already...
Time was when the lure of travel and of the sea furnished an irresistible call to the young New Englander. The great development of industry has changed all this, and with the passing of the old clipper ship has gone a large part of the romantic atmosphere that attached itself to the professional sailor.--in this country at least. The Briton however, must perforce be a mariner. The nation lives by commerce, and hence the sea is a popular calling. It has been left to an Englishman to show that in steam ships there is a fascination that equals that...
...bits of borderland melodrama are "The Singer" by Oliver LaFarge and difficult to see what justification there is for the latter sending a good man into adversity without a proper tragic flaw in his character. Scraft remains loyal to an ill-chosen wife who possesses no lure whatever for him. Finally his virtue engenders a slow hatred and we are permitted to watch him approach destruction. The tragedy is off the stage; the audience is left without catharsis and in dismay at the outcome. Mr. LaFarge happily prefers to prefers to preserve to us a good man and rescues...