Word: contact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...club to be known as the Chancery Club with Floyd Anderson 3L as president has been organized by members of the Law School. The purpose of the Club is "to promote social contact and professional association among members of the Harvard Law School, and to afford opportunity for their meeting and dining together...
...leaders of the C. I. E. were aware from the very start of the movement that the best way to eliminate existing animosity and create an atmosphere of good will and mutual understanding among the students of different countries, is to bring people into personal contact, so that they may learn to know one another. In European countries and I suppose in the United States also, the intellectuals form the basis of the national life. The students of today will in a few years be the leaders in the political, economic, cultural, and social life of their countries. They will...
...many students would not be able to travel if there were no decided reduction of expenses. With every dollar and every pound sterling which was cut off from their traveling expenses, just so many more students are able to take part in the beneficial work and gain a personal contact with their foreign fellow-students...
Tutors advise students about their reading, discuss with them their subject as a whole and in relation to their courses and the books they have read, argue with them, stimulate them to independent thought in short, provide them with what might be termed intellectual companionship. A tutor's contact with a student extends not only beyond the special field into the general field of learning, but also beyond the intellectual level into the dimension of the human friendly relation. The tutor is closer to the student than any other member of the faculty. It is his business...
...with the first two college years. But deprived of the maturer influence of upper classmen, the youthful student is hardly as well off at the junior college as in the freshman or sophomore class of the ordinary college or university. The opportunities for browsing around libraries, the possibilities of contact with an inspiring lecturer or tutor are much more numerous at the higher institutions. The elimination from the universities of this plastic period in favor of developing the highly specialized graduate schools does not seem the best method of sloving the problem. By insisting on a greater standard of endeavor...