Word: contact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George Herbert Palmer and Charles William Eliot on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the latter's incumbency of the presidential chair at Harvard University. Through the extreme courtesy of Professor Palmer in allowing the CRIMSON to publish these illuminating documents the public is given a personal contact with Dr. Eliot wholly delightful...
...long experience has shown that formal, public expression of tribute to men who have stood outstandingly for these things is a psychologically sound means to that end. Those of us who have, in the preparation of this memorial issue, studied Eliot's life and work, and thus indirectly gained contact with them, have been more than repaid by the inspiration they offer. In a much greater and more adequate way than the CRIMSON'S necessarily limited effort, a memorial service in which all Harvard can participate will fulfill the same double purpose, expression of gratitude for the past efforts...
...generations: Roman temples and Parisian shops; Gothic of sorts (and out of sorts) from the 'carpenter-Gothic' of 1845 through Victorian of that ilk, to the most modern and competent recasting of ancient forms and restored ideals . . . delicate little Georgian ghosts, shrinking in their unpremeditated contact with Babylonian skyscrapers that poise their towering masses of plausible masonry on an unconvincing substructure of plate glass. And it is all contemporary . . . while it is all wildly and improbably different...
This competition offers the winner opportunities for valuable business training and for contact with interesting people. The second assistant will become first assistant in April, and manager at the end of the year...
...laughter and one to tears. Mr. McCord has discovered the art of humor. This character of his who spends "Half Hours at Sea." who knows a "Philosophy of Ceilings." is humorous in his revlation of pathos. Life to him is no grand grasp of the mighty but a daily contact with the desperately stupid rhythm of life as it is. And the order of his day is the discovery of the droll, pathetic fact that life is life not a great scientific revelation but an amusing gesture. So Coles Philips would be right to suggest this as a Christmas gift...