Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...capable of instructing in English composition or elementary English for foreigners, in mathematics, modern languages, the physical sciences, music or political science, and desiring the opportunity of contact with workingmen through teaching, should communicate with Arthur Fisher 3L., 20 Winthrop Hall, Cambridge. Details of the work may also be discussed with F. K. Bullard '20 between 8 and 10 o'clock at Phillips Brooks House any week day morning...
...Prospect Union was founded in 1890 by Professor Francis G. Peabody '69, a group of Harvard students, and several workingmen of Cambridge. The purpose of the Union was then, and has since been, to bring into mutual beneficial contact all classes and groups in the community. Catholics and Protestants, Socialists and Anarchists, black and white, aliens and Americans, have all been members of the Union and have contributed their share to the working unity. Among the instructors and supporters of the organization have been such eminent men as Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton, Edward Everett Hale...
These teas are designed to give students an opportunity to meet informally members of the Faculty and their wives so that closer and more cordial relations may be established between members of the University and the officers. By attending these teas students come in contact with the men who are most prominent and interested in the affairs of the College and graduate schools...
They have laid my foundations on faith, on eternal visions of fair dealing, and fashioned my greatness with red blooded manhood and shoulder to shoulder contact with their fellow...
...course) tends to an individual system of education, with less assigned work and more voluntary work. Students at Harvard have long felt that there is something fundamentally wrong with the system of instruction. Whether the cause is a too definite prescription of work to be done, or lack of contact with the professors, or insufficient stimulation of originality, or the uninspiring personality of some section-men, many would-be students acquire late, or do not acquire at all, that absorption in their work which brings the greatest satisfaction. To this cause is due the remark common among graduates...