Word: contact
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...against the plan that the Stadium would be a less significant setting for the exercises than the Yard--was opposed by the contention that the principal part of Class Day would still center about the Yard and that by the use of Soldiers Field visitors would be brought in contact with a centre of another side of University life. Those who object to the plan of using the Stadium urged that every effort be made to see if the present Statue exercises need be abandoned, and that, if they must, other exercises be held somewhere in the Yard...
...reason why a young man goes to a university is because life and strength are transmitted from one individual to another. We get strength from a personality, and therefore want to come into contact with great men. That is why, also, in selecting a list of elective courses a man looks first to see whether the instructor is one who has a strong personality, then at the list of text books to be used...
...allotment of rooms in the College Yard. In view of these facts, every Junior interested in promoting class unity should consider carefully the possibilities now opened to him for extending this spirit of democracy throughout the class and throughout the University. Men may now come into close contact with classmates of varied interests, and yet at the same time be with a group of congenial friends. Besides making for unity and fellow-feeling, such a getting together of the class will have a mutually broadening effect upon our individual ideas and prejudices as few of us will realize without going...
...opportunities in the first days of the academic year for the meeting together of a large part of the class. The speeches will outline different athletic, literary, social and religious phases of the University life with which new men must sooner or later come into contact...
...University debates are of course the most striking forensic activity in College, but they are of little more real importance than the work in the class clubs and debates. It is here that most men come in contact with debating, and when interest is lacking here is means that few men are gaining the valuable training which debating affords. During the past year there was little good work in any class club entire reorganization of the club except the Senior Wranglers, and the entire reorganization of the club system is being considered by the University Debating Club, The interclass...