Word: contact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard and Yale glee clubs, not to take the place of the informal meeting before the football game in the fall. . . . Having so much in common both in tradition and in modern tendency", commented the News. "It is unfortunate that the Yale and Harvard clubs do not come into contact except in the informal joint concert the evening of the Yale-Harvard football game. . . . Since this does not provide an opportunity for a presentation of the best work of the clubs, would it not seem advisable to hold is joint cncert in the winter or spring, in which both clubs...
...very marked opportunity of intercollegiate relations of the highest type. A joint glee club concert does not even imply competition. The highest degree of cooperation and a friendly spirit between two large groups from different institutions in practice, would be the result of this sort of intercollegiate contact...
...this terror, gentlemen? No! It is hardly even severity. Is it terrorism? No! These measures are measures of social hygiene, of national prophylactics. I remove certain individuals from contact with their fellowmen, as a doctor would segregate one affected with infectious disease...
...fleet of North American Rotarians it was announced that radio communication?or "contact," as Rotarians say?would be continuous between ships all the way across the ocean so that the junket-ers could exchange messages and keep tabs on what all were doing. All six ships had their entertainment committees, to think up daily "programs" such as Rotarians enjoy at home only once per week. Each ship was laden with "inexpensive (and expensive) articles to be distributed as prizes." (Rotarians love to play games.) "Among other things sent in," announced The Rotarian (official monthly), "was a topcoat, rather a useful...
...bond between professor and student has been sorely stretched during recent years, due to the expansion of the universities and the increase in enrollment. At Harvard opportunities for contact are more prevalent perhaps than at any other equally large but less unified institutions: there are faculty-student teas are the Union in the Fall and, in addition, many professors welcome informal calls at their homes. But neither these nor similar methods of bringing the student closer to his teacher has quite succeeded in training mentor and pupil to the realization that each is, after all, more than a machine...