Word: contact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make arrangements with prospective employers some months before graduation, significant advances were made. The Engineering School has gone farther. The man who takes a position now with an employer who, of course, is working for has own interests, has not burned his bridges behind him. He has a definite contact, a circumstance so rare before, with a responsible, disinterested guide who is well oriented by the requisite ten years, of experience in the same field. This friend can save him from an unwise choice even after it has been made. The new graduate is not abandoned if the square...
...praise was more than justified by the success that was attended the trip of the past two weeks. Considering the chimaera that have been connected with the name of Harvard by certain popular fancies, the University is extremely fortunate in possessing a group that can, by performance and contact, Lindbergh-like, accomplish so much as delegates of good will...
...Europe ! Mr. Bratton does not know one-tenth - not one one-hundredth of the officers who were in Europe ! Mr. Bratton does not know anything about the voting inclinations of any of the officers who were in Europe, except, perhaps, the comparatively infinitesimal few whom he came in personal contact with. Therefore, Mr. Bratton does not know any thing positive about that which he speaks. . . . Each week, I look to TIME for facts and dislike seeing such foolish and unfounded statements appearing therein, even under "Letters...
...theories and generalities. Generalities can never adequately account for the mental repression of youth; each man is an individual and his particular psychology is the determinate factor in what eventually happens to him. Therefore it is probable that the Department of Mental Hygiene, establishing as it does personal contact with and immedate injuiry into the "emotional turmoil" of the student, is the most effective solution to what will always be a problem, whether recognized or not, in any University or College...
...people of today, however, the people of college age, form the real vanguard of Sullivan's larger public. They hear witness to the success of his experiment, for he has re-created a period of transition for them, a period with which they have had little or no direct contact...