Word: contact
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...hesitate and temporize. The dormitory situation must be met manfully. But let us first come to a very candid understanding as to what the "dormitory situation" is; and as we have all spent some time at Cambridge and have a common foundation of data obtained from experience and personal contact, let us not befog the discussion with too much preliminary analysis of classes, clubs and athletics and other elements that are interwoven in the sum total of elements which go to make Harvard's world; and let us not introduce into this discussion any hasty argument on the qualifications which...
...should help him in it; if it fails to help him fully in that then perhaps it would have been better for the American community if he had gone into business life from his preparatory school. It is this desire for a broadening of the horizon of sympathies, for contact between northerner, southerner, easterner and westerner, for contact between men of ideas, based upon different beliefs, traditions and trainings that is awake in every undergraduate, who is maturing as a university should mature a man. In the various activities in the University, in which men are gathered from all corners...
...does not begin to meet the evil squarely; and the evil must be met squarely, even at a great sacrifice. A remedy that would go to the root of the difficulty would be one which would destroy that condition of affairs under which men are accidentally thrown 'into personal contact at the outset of their college life almost entirely, so far as concerns the formation of new personal ties, upon the general basis of their comparative money allowances. I believe that Harvard should take heroic measures to end the unfortunate situation by which walls of inertia are built upon untrue...
...ministry as a vocation, Dr. Van Dyke explained, is a life consecrated to the spiritual welfare of one's fellow men. In preparation for this life the chief requisites are a broad college education, a thorough theological training, and above all, a wide contact with...
...around us. Inestimable good can be accomplished by a more thoughtful execution of our administrative justice. Then we can improve the situation of the employer and servant. There are many other opportunities of doing good in the routine of our daily life. Inspiration, however, can come only through personal contact with other men. In closing, he laid stress on the need of philanthropic ideals, a larger goal of real social democracy towards which we may strive...