Word: contact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advantages of tutorial work need no repetition in these columns. The contact with more mature minds, the opportunity offered for intellectual stimulus, have transformed the system from an experiment to an integral part of Harvard instruction...
...systematized world where subways and taxis and efficiency make life, a continuous contact with the machine, four years of "waste" when one is not interested in selling soap or suspenders ideas or conjectures but is interested in roaming through Plato or in wandering down the pleasant paths of literature are rather worth while. And if there were more who could best enjoy and use them there would be fewer efficiency experts and more sanity, fewer commissioners, and more education...
There is a place for everything and everything in its place--and that is not the grass of the Yard. When the bovine and divine contact little is left of the Aristotelian ambition for a thinking man--and yet--one must admit that the stones of Widener steps grow no softer with the years. So perhaps these Rousseauistic recumbants are a bit justified--perhaps...
...collection of the Budget lies its ultimate success or failure. The actual men who are engaged in carrying this out will be in such direct contact with the conditions and obstacles involved that they must to a considerable degree be allowed latitude in the procedure which they may employ. This committee has certain very definite recommendations, based on the experience of similar drives in past years and upon the experience of other colleges with a Budget, which are enumerated below...
...winds that added speed and made life more endurable for the wakeful voyagers, forced to stand close-packed in their unheated gondola. Bear Island was raised and passed without the fog complications that had been feared. Then the southern capes of Spitzbergen loomed dimly and the aeronauts established radio contact with operators at Kings Bay, who had listened all night to the whine of the Norge's instrument asking for compass directions, reporting all was well...