Word: contact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visited the English universities," said the Countess, "but I have had no opportunity of coming in contact with the American college boy. In France we know Boston as a big University town and a historical ground. As I came into Boston tonight. I saw the Bunker Hill monument all aglow, and I remembered my ancestor Lafayette who helped lay its corner stone. I am very glad to be here...
Most people are aware of the benefits derived from an interchange of students and scholars between different countries. The broadened outlook resulting from travel benefits the individuals them selves and the cause of international friendship and mutual understanding is aided by the contact between the educated classes of different countries...
...President Eliot belongs the honor of having brought the college study of America into close and active contact with its public work and business life...
...time and energy spent by the authors of the Memorial Issue have been far more than repaid by the contact they have afforded with their object. Next to knowing President Eliot in person, the greatest pleasures are to be derived from reading what he has written and spoken and from talking with those who have been both humanly and academically acquainted with him. It is with the deepest feeling of gratitude to a great man that the editors of the CRIMSON, present this Memorial Issue to do him honor in their small but sincere...
...Western university and leader of that group in education today which is working almost directly away from Dr. Eliot's conception of the college, writes in the Nation. "A few letters, written in his precise longhand," with "some of the Olympian sweep of his spirit," form the only personal contact between the two men. Robert Littell in the New Republic recalls his early days as a teacher under Dr. Eliot, speaks of the warmth that lay under his austere interior, and of the calm and passionless force with which he gave rebuke or praise. Edwin Mead writes in the Springfield...