Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Marsh addressed the Graduate Club last evening on "University Life in the Romance Countries of Europe." It has only been within the last sixty years that the American student has come in contact with European professors, and this contact so far has been mostly with German professors. It is now that we should turn our attention more towards the universities of the Romance countries of Europe, - especially France, Italy, and Spain...
...Gilbert thought the study of man and of nature to be the best means to a better education. Let the child study man through history, literature, perhaps geography, let him come into personal contact with nature and absorb her truths. Above all, he ought to be made to appreciate that all studies are linked together, that there is only one knowledge, and that the possession of that knowledge means all to him both for success and for high living...
...Palmer of the University of Chicago has received a communication from the World's Fair authorities, offering to admit chemistry students to the fair, for a month, free of charge. The students are to work a few hours a day in the mining department, where they will come in contact with practical chemists and will obtain practice in applied chemistry...
...mental reaction has been used, but it will be replaced in laboratory and practical use by the Bliss Multiple Key, which not only saves one-half the labor in making experiments, but records variations of one-ten-thousandth of a second. It is made of unlacquered brass without platinum contact, and so arranged that five currents run through it. One, two or three of these can be made or broken at the same time, or broken for an instant and then made again, or these makes and breaks can be adjusted so as to occur one after the other...
...forces of nature in order that they may earn their bread; but the world today does not want great capitalists, great scientists, great specialits, great professors, or even great theologians, but what it does want is great men who have their own spiritual sensibilities developed and who come into contact with their fellow-men is spiritual beings leading a spiritual life...