Word: connect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William H. Sullivan, Jr., president of the team's syndicate, confirmed that at a meeting held here yesterday an official told him the University thinks using the Stadium for professional football would connect the Harvard name directly with professional sports, and would be "inconsistent with its philosophy of athletics...
When it has taken to the air, however, the varsity has not been as impressive. Ravenel's passing has certainly improved, but he has not yet shown the ability to connect for the long gain in crucial situations. He has completed 37.5 per cent for 219, and he is still always a double threat on options...
...certain impotence, a certain deficiency in communication, and attacked it again and again, rapidly, realizing each time that his attempt has been unsuccessful but not caring to return and to correct, moving on immediately for the next abortive try. He puts together various dissimilar images, which obviously connect in his own mind, but which the reader is likely to find too personal to understand. And, above all, the words when read aloud do not make pleasing sounds. The poetry is by fits markish and over-intellectual, obviously written in haste and, all in all, not easy to read...
...always sustained. Freshmen find themselves suddenly thrust into huge lecture-courses, and (once again in Bundy's words) "the meaning of the course is somehow lost in the taking of it...The Faculty is an exciting faculty, but it is often research-minded. The need, then, is to connect freshman excitement with faculty excitement...
...that "clearly the most effective way of stimulating awareness and concern, honest scholarship and intellectual zest, is to put the student in close association with a man whose work is an affirmation of these qualities." "Close association" is the key phrase here; it is this circumstance which will, hopefully, "connect freshmen excitement with Faculty excitement." Beyond this one shared starting-point, the various roads to Mecca head off in extremely different directions...