Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...their wives. To accomplish this end, members of the College and the graduate schools will act as ushers, and a committee of the wives of the Faculty will receive. The Student Council wishes to call the attention of all members of the University to this opportunity to come in contact with those most prominent and most interested in the affairs of the College and the graduate schools...
Although typhoid is rare in Cambridge one may come into contact with it at anytime, especially when travelling. Impure food and water are liable to contain germs of the disease...
...denote something distinct from a command of the tools of one's trade. The lawyer, for example, or the physician, or the engineer, may have a complete mastery of all the technical learning of his profession without possessing culture. This is evident at once when he comes into contact with men of other professions. He may talk profoundly about his own subject, but have nothing intellectual in common with the other men if he lives within the four walls of his own occupation and his vision is strictly limited thereby...
Under this title an article in the current number of the "Atlantic Monthly" voices a strong protest against the elective system which is now so familiar to us. "Universities were invented," says the author of this article, "for the sake of bringing their fortunate students into contact with the precious lore of the world, there garnered and kept pure." Nowadays, "if a boy does not feel a pre-established harmony between his soul and the humanities, then give him an academic degree on something with which his soul will be in pre-established harmony. And if there...
...competition for the second assistant business managerships of the CRIMSON is deserving of greater interest from 1918 than has so far been shown. No previous experience is necessary. The competition brings an undergraduate into intimate contact with activities in College, and permits close observation of actual business affairs. The probability that three men will be taken on from this comptition in view of the increased demands on the business staff as a result of the new building, should be an incentive for more men to come out. Candidates should report Monday evening at 7 o'clock...