Word: closer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...year at Phillips Brooks House has been marked by a closer relationship between the House and the University Chapel. Since the change of the Sunday Chapel service to the morning and the appointment of a Chapel Committee of the Association, a notable increase in the Sunday attendance has taken place and has had an influence in slightly increasing the attendance on week-day mornings. For the months October to December the average student attendance on Sunday has been twice as large as in either of the two previous years, even excluding two Sundays when exceptionally popular preachers overtaxed the capacity...
Among the two or three most persistent opinions voiced in the Class Reports by Seniors and recent graduates in reply to the question. "What advantage do you think you ought to have found at Harvard which you have failed to find?" is the matter of closer relations between the Faculty and students. It seems to be an almost universal regret among graduates that they did not utilize to better advantage the opportunity while in College of becoming personally acquainted with such great characters as Dean Shaler and Professor Norton. Among the undergraduates the same feeling is expressed concerning many...
...know that such a condition continues to exist. How many of us have been advised to take certain courses "because of the personality of the instructor. Professor -- is a great man and you ought to know him." But how many times in such a case do we ever approach closer than the restrictions of the lecture hall allow? The superiority of the larger universities is due to the fact that their greater resources enable them to obtain men who are at once efficient teachers and intellectual leaders. Seldom, however, do we make use of this advantage which Harvard possesses...
...demanded by popular sentiment. Mr. Woods said the new ideals of vocational institutions tend to dignify the common trades by raising them to a science. Furthermore, these schools discover the students' abilities, stimulate initiative, and, because all are working toward a common end, bring teachers, alumni, and undergraduates into closer contact with each other. After these papers the discussion was carried on by Professor H. W. Holmes, W. B. Snow, Miss F. E. Leadbetter, and Professor W. A. Neilson...
...last four or five years there has been a great growth of democratic ideas the world over. In every country the government has drawn closer to the people. In Russia, the Duma has been set up; in China, a constitutional government has been started with an organic law and a senate; in Turkey, the same step has been taken; in England, the Budget was passed over the veto of the House of Lords; and in this country, the overthrow of Cannonism by progressive Republicans and progressive Democrats has been a triumph for democracy...