Word: contact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fisher, who has been instrumental in arranging this game, is highly pleased at the success of the project. He says that Harvard alumni generally, and especially those in Texas, will enthusiastically approve of this game. "What we particularly desire," said Mr. Fisher, "is a closer contact between Harvard and the Southwest, and we took this football game as a short-cut to our goal. You know, two strange business men can get closer together in an afternoon of golf than they might in weeks of correspondence, phone calls, or even business visits. It is the same in inter-university matters...
...mood was this: "Ah, Senators! As long as you conduct your negotiations by correspondence over thousands of miles of sea, you will never understand each other at all. In these democratic days when heart speaks to heart as deep speaks to deep and silence talks to silence, personality, personal contact, exchange of views by the lip, sitting at two sides of a fireplace-as it was my great privilege to do this week with your President-these things are to be as important as anything else in laying the foundation of an enduring peace all over the world." Worldwide echoes...
...arguments most frequently heard in support of intercollegiate athletics is the fact that they offer an opportunity for contact and understanding between the undergraduates of the various institutions involved. Just how effective the usual type of football weekend is as a good will tour will always remain a bit of a problem, but certain it is that there are potentialities in this direction which deserve development...
...case of the Harvard-West Point game the opportunities for informal contact between any large numbers of the visitors and those who are nominally their hosts are strictly limited both by military rule and the shortness of the Army's stay. Virtually the only means of contact between the men of the two institutions is that afforded by the welcoming committee. Those in charge of this years group have wisely planned for an unusually large committee, a provision which should make for much greater informality and flexibility than the old plan of assigning...
Coach Horween gave his football charges a day of light work yesterday. The entire squad was somewhat shaken up by Monday's scrimmage, the hardest of the year, and seemed to require a respite from contact work before continuing the serious business of preparing to repuise the New Hampshire invasion of Saturday. Scrimmaging will again be on the program today, however...