Word: closer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...largely patronized by the students, the use of the House for the University teas and Bible classes, and its association with the Chapel Committee form its principal internal connections with the College. Opening the rooms for the use of the undergraduates will bring the House into a little closer touch with the student body, and a continuation of this policy should tend towards making it the centre for social improvements in the University...
...relate to the Freshman dormitories and football will naturally be of the utmost interest to members of the University and are given in substance below. President Lowell thinks that under the Freshman dormitory system there will be no need for more rigid discipline, if more careful oversight and a closer intercourse between instructors and students are provided. This he advocates as very necessary in Freshman year, the conditions of which largely determine a man's college career. Football, President Lowell says, to be a permanent institution, should be a sport pursued by a large part of the undergraduate body...
...consented to speak, and emphasized the need of a thorough understanding between the youth of Germany and this country. It is surprising, he said, how little each knows of the other, and how inaccurate and garbled even that little is. The exchange professors which attempt to bring the countries closer together, can do but little unless the attitude of the students whom they address is favorable. In closing, he complimented the Verein and offered to be of assistance to it in any way which lay in his power...
...mass of the people, that they are hampered by tradition, and have not adapted their courses to the needs of public life. Until the system is reorganized, the English university can hold no such place in the public estimation as does the American university. He hoped for a closer relation between the countries...
...great significance of the production last night in Sanders Theatre, as Mr. Miller pointed out, is that it betokens the beginning of a closer relationship of our great universities to the professional drama. Mutual appreciation and sympathy will bring about an attitude conducive to uplift and to betterment of the undesirable in the theatrical world...