Word: acquaintanceship
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...Times, which after a bit was made a roving commission. He wandered over Europe cultivating friends and harvesting interviews* in a way that was the envy of many less gifted correspondents. Pershing, Lloyd George, Foch, Northcliffe, Joffre, Clemenceau, King Constantine, Wilson were his material. The nature of his acquaintanceship with these men is well illustrated by such despatches as: "I met the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, casually in Downing Street today. He was coming out from luncheon, and I asked him What he thought of Lord Grey's letter." Or an interview with Foch 'during the dangerous...
Outside of this somewhat impersonal acquaintanceship, the undergraduates as a whole have had no chance to know the team. Tonight the opportunity comes. The College, the coaches, and the team will get together face to face and there will be very few students left to lean out of dormitory windows and wonder sleepily, "What's all the shoutin' for?" The University has complete confidence in its team and tonight is the first occasion to show...
...individual man of his ability to think and the willingness to follow the logic of his carefully considered thought through to conviction is the desirable ambition for the college. This presupposes the acquisition of certain fundamental knowledge, the mastery, of the technique of finding new knowledge when needed, acquaintanceship with the method of gaining access to original sources, a disposition to seek all facts and to sort these according to relative importance before accepting conclusions, and finally an open-minded tolerance for new facts if they shall appear and be proved valid, even though they attack conclusions already formed. --President...
...been proved time and again that the undergraduate community at large does very little current reading. It probably does very little of any kind outside of courses; here is an opportunity to delve into the realm of books, of art, of music, of drama--to obtain an acquaintanceship with that most fascinating of all worlds, the world of the mind...
...will be able to keep in touch with what is going on in the very centers of revival by reading the pages of papers from Milan, Geneva and Vienna. Add to the list of men who will make use of the new files, all who regard an acquaintanceship with international affirm and current events a part of their education, and there remain few, indeed, who will not welcome the addition to the Union's library...