Word: contact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...research by undergraduate teachers, or to minimize the value of research in the life of the professor. Still more unfortunate is the tendency of the professor himself to withdraw more and more within his personal field of interest for his happiest life, and to set this apart from his contact with students so that his instruction becomes mechanical and artificial. His lectures are not rewritten, his discussion groups are perfunctory, and he breathes freely only when in his laboratory or library or office...
...which prevent under-standing, and which prevent students engaged in one field from seeing the meaning of the other. The American college is like one of the American states ten years ago, before the good roads movement had struck its citizens. Only at certain seasons of the year was contact possible at all along the highway. When the good movement began highways were flung out from this center and from that, most of them without leading anywhere and not linked up with any major systems of the continental traffic. Now the good roads movement has learned to think in continent...
...tell him, and so the result is that all he has to do is remember it. The proper relationship is that of master and apprentice, and the first duty of a teacher is to be a student, and then the teacher relationship comes when the young mind comes into contact with an older mind. It is very hard to get the young American to do it. You can not get a young American to play his own football games. They won't play it themselves. They have to get somebody else to manage it for them, someone to coach...
...remained for a son of my own college to take the palms, two Morris chairs, and the family silver. He was more than good: he was better. Although his diction shows contact with chronic dyspepsia, his range is excellent. In truth when he eclipsed high C. I. was ready to compare him with the Romanticists of the Early Pleistocene. Nor does he lack gesture. He should illustrate for Milt Gross. His name? I think it is Sheridan. And like his great namesake he has rivals...
...were shup up in as many oranges by the Queen Witch whose machinations pervade the dramatic cosmos. The action comes when the Prince there is one naturally seeks for the oranges. It is while on his travels in search of them that Gilbert Seldes has brought him into contact with the modernism's which give the play its strong satiric flavor, and makes it well worth the attention of a student vagabond...