Word: contact
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...class of 1905 wishes us to extend to you its most heartfelt sympathy for the loss you have suffered in the death of your son Gordon. He was beloved by all with whom he came in contact and his loss is deeply felt. Very sincerely, ROBERT W. LEATHERBEE, JOHN P. BOWDITCH, JOHN A. TUCKERMAN, AYMAR JOHNSON, ROBERT WINSOR...
...Professor Thayer, he said, was one of the few true scholars of the day. Whatever task he undertook was always thoroughly performed, and never had to be done over. His life was so manly, strenuous and truthful that he won the respect and love of all who came in contact with him. Professor Thayer's life work was the interpretation and criticism of the New Testament, a work for which he was noted throughout the Christian world. He was not only a master of the New Testament, but he was a model of its teachings. His work influenced his whole...
What men get in college life, which is of worth, is not wholly in lectures and recitations, but in the contact with educated men and seeing the ways of the world. Thus the old-time idea of a professor apart from the world and above it is outgrown; and such a man would not be the one who could direct consolidated work...
...last until July 19. The general aim of the school this year, as in its past sessions, will be to furnish for clergymen and divinity students opportunities "for the study of subjects of intrinsic and current theological interest," and to give them the inspiration which comes from contact with the best results of modern scholarship...
Hawthorne's visit to the Berkshires in 1838 marked the turning point of his career. Contact with the rough, hearty mountaineers and frontiersmen brought to him for almost the first time a realization of other men and other lives, and with this experience the self centred traits of his nature began to disappear. From this time must be dated the real beginning of his literary career. The old sensitiveness to emotion and idealism, the delicate fancy and imagination still remained, and to these he has added something of the sympathy with mankind and human nature by which alone he might...