Word: contact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Critics delight to dwell upon the alleged stereotyped form of modern education. They deplore the lack of "contact" of college courses with the current life of the time, saying that there is need of a keener recognition of the changing effect of world events on the subject-matter. While any drastically revolutionary remedy for such deficiency must be looked on with suspicion, a plan suggests itself which is encouraging in its simplicity. The plan is to interpolate the regular lectures or class-room discussion in such subjects as government or economics with timely discourses on important world problems. How many...
Arriving in Moscow, Divorce Pioneer de la Revera sought out the Society of Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. They placed him in contact with the proper authorities and upon simple declaration that he wished a divorce he received it within 20 minutes. The fee: 15?. "Now I can marry Martha!" exclaimed Senor Cesari Alvarez de la Revera, and within 24 hours...
...informal activities of college are worth anything it is in the development of just those intangible considerations which are of peculiar importance to the medical man. The easy contact afforded by competitions of one sort and another, and the humanising effects of vigorous athletics give opportunities to the pre-medical student which he can ill afford to miss. But the technical requirements of his education, and the rules of laboratory authorities conspire against...
...between the University and the business world, the CRIMSON offers many advantages to its prospective business editors. Contrary to the supposition that the competition is drudgery, there are many interesting experiences, ranging all the way from taking Old Gold tests to searching for phonograph-listening marathons. Then there is contact with the advertising sides of business, which are recognized as essential factors in modern industry...
...Conference, his hopes, his mistakes, his achievements, his compromises and his disasters are worthy of something better than the Hollywood setting with which we are provided. The President is represented as a stainless Sir Galahad championing the superior ideals of the American people and brought to infinite distress by contact with the awful depravity of Europe and its statesmen. Mr. Baker's film story is, in short, the oldest in the world. It is nothing less and nothing more than the conflict between good and evil, between spiritual conceptions and material appetites, between generosity and greed, between moral earnestness...