Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...news competition brings men into close contact with the College activities and gives a valuable knowledge of all phases of University life...
...then scrambling into nose-bags, of eating one meal a day on feast days, and none at all on fast days, of staying aware day and night except for an, occasional forty winks stolen when things were more or less calm--in fact six days of pleasant contact with Mr. Boche, which, however, totalled up for all the outfits along the line, smashed his drive on the nose and started him going backwards. Then we moved out--up to the river the first day, and across the second, and on into the forests and fields and thicket-covered hillsides where...
...words that he "expects to work there with Lieutenant Morize." Colonel Azan is known to us all as the leader of the French Military Mission to the University last year, and as the author of a much-studied treatise on present war tactics, if not through the more personal contact of the lecture hall or drill field. And since he is so well known to us, we are fully aware of the fact that he is an officer with a keen military mind, and an excellent grasp of the means and methods of modern warfare. We have seen but little...
Lastly, there is in and around the Yard a fair number of men with whom, in class or out, I have had some personal contact. Most if not all of these men I count as friends. They will probably have heard me mention, the word "truth"; and, in the course of a half-year, two or three other words. They will have observed, I hope, or if not my work here has been a failure, a certain attitude towards the universe and towards life--a fairly definite attitude. I desire these men, at least, to do what in them lies...
...conference is planned not only to give opportunities for personal contact with men who are outstanding leaders in modern religious thought, but also to afford a chance for a few days of healthy recreation. With these ends in view the daily program will be arranged so that Bible and mission classes, and lectures by prominent social service leaders will take up the mornings and evenings, while the afternoons will be devoted to various sorts of athletics, such as intercollegiate competitions in baseball, track and tennis...