Word: contact
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Royce began by emphasizing the importance of race questions today. The development of facilities for transportation, the growth of international trade, and the movements toward conquest or peaceful alliance inevitably bring about the contact and conflict of different races. The race problem is everywhere. It confronts the English in the Coolie question in the West Indies and the Chinese question in South Africa; it confronts us in the negro question in the south and the Chinese question in the west...
...Filley '06 and R. Oveson '05 will report on the formation of a permanent organization of "H" men. The purpose of such an organization, as outlined at a dinner of "H" men held on December 19, is to bring all men who have won the "H" into closer contact...
...number, or rather "make . . . over into interested and active students" the "too many men here who live a life of athletic or ornamental leisure," to secure for the undergraduate something of that same vigorous and sustained mental training that accompanies study in the Law School, and by close contact between student and instructor obtain whatever advantages are now sometimes claimed for the smaller college. But these ends cannot be accomplished until in University's finances are in such condition that more assistants, and of even better quality, can be secured to carry on this work and to relieve the professors...
...thorough reform of the Christian church in the eleventh century, coupled with the desire to restore the old Roman empire, was directly responsible for the Crusades. These served to subdue the Mohammedans--the "yellow peril" of the Middle Ages. With the decline of the Crusading spirit Europe came into contact with the luxury of the East; and great commercial natons, such as Venice, came into prominence. While the empire in Europe was slowly going to pieces, Rome was futilely endeavoring to form a united Christian empire, not national but European...
...address Mr. Foster will give the results of an extended observation of the actual contact of the West with the East, and his views on the present opportunity for missionary endeavor, in the broad and modern sense...