Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will find more and higher inspiration for work and better opportunities to perform it. It is a fact that under prevalent conditions a major portion of undergraduate mediocrity is found among isolated groups of students who live apart from their active and energetic classmates and who never come in contact with the leaders of the classes. The consequence is they are satisfied to loaf and do only enough work to remain in College, for they do not come in contact with those who offer examples of active and inspiring leadership. In other words, in the new environment, the leaders will...
...among the foreigners and teach them our language and institutions in a friendly and tactful spirit. After that the responsibility rests with the manufacturers, who should make themselves more or less guardians of their people, provide club-houses or other means of recreation, and above all, come into personal contact with...
...House daily from nine until eleven o'clock. The men who come to Appleton Chapel during the course of the year are generally of unusual renown in their calling and prominent in the intellectual life of the country. Notwithstanding the unusual value of the privilege to come into personal contact with such men, it cannot be said the students avail themselves of it to any significant extent. Whenever prominent men visit us to speak upon the political or social questions of the day, they generally attract extremely large audiences. Consequently, that we should fail to meet men so prominent...
...teachers are all students, graduates and instructors in the University is an educational and social club for men, managed by wage earners. Its object is to extend to working-men opportunities for elementary, technical, commercial, and higher education through evening classes and lectures, and to bring into mutually helpful contact working-men, students and teachers. It rests on a non-sectarian, non-partisan basis, being open to any man over seventeen years of age regardless of his nationality, creed, or station in life...
...noble traditions. If you are here to seek pleasure you are in the wrong place. Pleasure is a by-product and has never been found by merely pursuing it. You are here for a far more serious purpose; to qualify yourself and others for a life work. Get into contact with men and find something in common with them. Avoid mediocrity in all things like poison and strive always to break records, not records of others but your own. Keep your minds bright, sharp, keen, and serviceable tools, and remember that the habit of handling masses of facts and seeing...