Word: closer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...graduate association, to be known as the Yale Engineering Association, has been formed, and a constitution will be drawn up soon. Its object will be to advance the interests of engineering education at Yale, and to establish closer relationship between the engineering department of the Sheffield Scientific School and undergraduates active in the field...
...aims of the association are to bring the various college comic publications into closer relationship with one another, to enable them to deal more effectively with problems common to all, and to promote greater efficiency and higher quality in their papers through the discussions and interchange of ideas. It is planned to hold a banquet each year in New York City...
Since the Harvard-Tech. alliance of last year, many advances have been made towards stimulating a closer relationship between the students in the two institutions. Members of Technology, at the same time candidates for a Harvard degree, have been given the privilege of applying for football tickets; the engineering journals of Harvard and M. I. T. have combined; the Deutscher Verein has extended membership to students at M. I. T.; and only recently the track teams of both institutions competed in informal track games...
Every act that makes for closer harmony and co-operation between the Universities and colleges of the country is a step in the right direction. Rivalry, other than athletic, is ridiculous, unless in be a friendly rivalry for higher standards and wider service. Athletic rivalry is good. As in the case of Michigan it stimulates friendship and helps two universities to understand each other better...
...plan is making possible the entrance of public school men outside this state on a closer plane of equality with privately prepared men. At the same time the standard of the men after entering has not fallen off. This be-speaks the success of the new plan of entrance examinations and points to a closer co-ordination between Harvard and the secondary schools...