Word: contact
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...former president Stearns of Amherst, and Bishop Lee of Delaware. In 1833 he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, but he soon gave up the law to become head-master of the Boston Latin School. During the fifteen years in which he served in this position, he came in contact with a most remarkable set of boys. A few of them were Mayor Quincy of Boston, Rev. Dr. J. W. Thayer of the Divinity School, J. Q. Adams, Russell Sturgis, Professor J. B. Greenough, Robert Treat Paine, Sr., Colonel H. L. Higginson, Justin Winsor, Phillips Brooks, and President Eliot...
...billiard and pool rooms, bowling alleys and swimming pools, there are provided opportunities for harmless amusement-- one of the chief objects of such a club--as well as opportunities for the students in the various departments to come into contact making them feel that they have interests in common and seeming to unify and strengthen university spirit...
...work of the 'Varsity Club itself the best debaters in the two upper classes will be brought into more frequent contact than is possible in English 30 and English 6, and if the weekly debates receive creditable support, doubtless much benefit will be derived by all concerned. Public opinion is that the two upper classes because of the courses of instruction provided can not support class clubs, and past experience has shown that they could not support two so to speak 'Varsity Clubs. We believe, however, that a single University Debating Club will keep alive sufficient interest to ensure...
Comparatively few wear the colored hatbands, even in the weather for straw hats. It would seem as if some plan should be adopted to bring the classmates into closer contact, even though that contact be only momentary...
...University Debating Club has everything in its favor. First, the men who have formed it will not fail to see that it is firmly established; second, the best debaters in college by coming into closer contact with one another will gain mutual benefit; third, a central organization is calculated to encourage the best form of rivalry and to place a higher standard on debating, and last, by setting a higher standard membership in the club will grow in general esteem...