Word: contact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contained in a letter published in the current number of the Alumni Bulletin. The writer finding that his training in English has meant little more than a harrowing grind for divisional criticizes the Harvard system of instruction as applied to this department, declaring that the right kind of contact is not established between teacher and student and that "the constraining effect of divisional examinations" must be removed before a "taste for beauty" and a "cultivation of critical standards" can be instilled into the student...
Fortunately, these relics of an attitude that divorced worldly amusements from any contact with religion or religious men are now in the class of museum pieces. In the minds of modern men the jarring elements in religion and daily amusement have become reconciled into harmony. There has arisen a recognition of how each may supplement the other...
...Librarian of the City of St. Louis would spend more time trying to make his library an up-to-date institution where one can keep in some sort of half-hazard contact with the progress of the modern mind instead of writing notes to the editor of TIME, he would be of much more benefit to humanity...
...like comedy, especially the type in which I am playing now. It is meant for a small theatre, where the actors can be more intimate with the audience. When a contact of this kind is made, for some reason or the other the play always seems to go off much better...
Charles Townsend Copeland has been one of those rare scholars who have truly appraised the personal relation between teacher and pupil. He relied more on direct contact than on lectures, books and formulas, but his courses nevertheless have been popular, and the fame of his readings has traveled far beyond collegiate circles. But it has been by summoning the members of his composition course "English 23," to his rooms in Hollis to read aloud their themes to him, and by gathering others together on winter evenings to exchange ideas about everything this side of the moon, that his influence...