Word: contacting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Going on with the history of wrestling, Pat observed that in the 19th century the sport made great progress. "The eastern states in this country took up the Roman style, while the far west, because of its contact with the Orient, adopted the Japanese technique. The Oklahoma wrestlers tried to combine the two, and that is one reason why they put out the finest grapplers in the game...
...preservation of this band and its work is equivalent to the preservation of China. Upon the Chinese intellectual rests the fate of his nation in the struggle with the Rising Sun, Only he is in contact with the current of scientific development which flows in the Occident. Only he is capable of building a backbone for national resistance-a backbone designed to meet modern specifications. And only he is able to govern, to fill the administrative offices of the Nationalist Government...
...advise and strongly urge all who wish to write to take part in a Crimson competition" was Professor Copeland's confirmation of this. To busy-bodies, the Crimson offers a legitimate excuse to mind other people's affairs. For undergraduates who like to get around, there is close contact with the men who run Harvard, as officers, professors or students. For men with special interests in a vast variety of subjects--politics, sports, humanity in general and collegiate humanity in particular--there is an opportunity to express those interests. Specifically to artists and musicians does the Editorial Board offer...
...make him do an intelligent thing--and this on an urchin who has never been taught to use his mind." He and others shuddered at the mania for size which had seized the wealthier schools, the turning of headmasters into highly efficient administrative officers, the loss of close contact between student and teacher. And these evils have persisted and swelled, so that President Conant's report and the committee to study secondary teaching methods appear opportunely...
Through the Dean's office there is constant contact with the hundreds of schools that annually send men here for their Freshman year. This winter Dean Gummere is visiting some of these schools in the South and Middle West, interviewing prospective candidates. While a student is here, the Records office sends back reports on his progress. In this way Harvard standards are carried to the schools, influence those schools...