Word: contact
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...American writers Hawthorne was the most imaginative and sensitive. His boyhood and his early manhood were marked by a strange and almost morbid hyper-sensitiveness of nature that made him shrink instinctively from contact with others. He lived in the realm of his own creative fancy, and of the actual world about him he had little knowledge and less experience. His life was reflected in his early writings, and they are unnatural and constrained...
...class and University baseball, crew, and track teams, and in fact all teams, officially sanctioned by the University, that need training tables, will be brought together under one roof. In this way not only will all of them have the same food, but they will be brought into close contact with one another. Mr. Young has been engaged as caterer, but the house has not yet been decided upon...
Saturday was given to excursions in charge of Dr. Gregory. The morning was spent in examining West Rock, where the party found splendid exposures of the intrusive contact of a huge lava sheet with the Triasaic sand-stones. In the afternoon the party, including Professors Williams, Beecher and Pearson of Yale, took the train to Meriden, passing the escarpment of the hanging hills on the way, and going on to the large quarries in the lava beds north of the city. From there the party went along the great fault line where the displacement measures about 2,000 feet...
After Professor Emerton had concluded, Professor Peabody spoke briefly of the Dean's personal qualities and their influence upon all who came in contact with him. One of his most marked traits was a ready sympathy that served as in the case of Phillips Brooks to hide the deep reserve of his inner nature. Dr. Everett was not a great administrator nor an organizer of especial ability, but it was in his power to reach heights of thought and inspiration to which ordinary men cannot attain. The ease with which he treated the most profound subjects showed how thoroughly...
...less length Professor Royce discusses the touch of idealism and poetic sensitiveness of the Californian nature that comes from daily contact with the wonderful richness and beauty of the country...