Word: contact
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...language which our new professor is sent here to teach is the Mandarin, the language of Chinese nobles and officials, and the vehicle of the literature of the country. Mandarin is of no use to the few Harvard students who wish to study Chinese, since they would come in contact only with the Cantonese, who speak a language so different from the Mandarin that our professor himself cannot understand them. Mandarin is, however, valuable for those who wish to enter the Chinese consular service of American and European governments, or the customs service of China itself. When any such students...
...Titus was formerly a member of the class of '80. He occupied a position during the last part of his college course which brought him in contact with students of all classes, and the strict integrity of his character was well known throughout the University. He was an able scholar, having done two years' work in one and passed from the Sophomore to the Senior class. He had laid well the foundation of a useful life...
...enough to have a medical man of the ordinary type for Professor of Hygiene. Most doctors have been bred in contact with disease, and have no true sympathy for health, and they are usually cramped by the tenets of their own school of therapeutic surmises. Nor is it enough to put over the Gymnasium a man who knows nothing of anatomy and physiology, however good a general gymnast he may be. Such a man may be best fitted to teach how to execute a certain exercise, but never to prescribe what exercise each man needs. A simple teacher of gymnastics...
...foul shall be considered to have been committed when, after the race has commenced, any competitor shall, by his oar, person, or boat, come in contact with the oar, person, or boat of any other competitor, unless, in the opinion of the Referee, such contact has been so slight as not to influence the result of the race...
...such a cynic or recluse when I entered college; on the contrary, I was full of love and sympathy for my fellow-man. It is only the constant persecution of my brother-students that has brought me so low. Why, I even envy President Eliot's immunity from contact with the students, and think Adam must have had a jolly time until Mrs. Adam (his Eve-il genius) put in an appearance...