Word: rapport
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...main theme is the simple story of Hans, an idiot boy, who at first is feared and loathed by Martin Scheffer, his father, but when Emma, the nurse, undertakes to bring the two together on the occasion of the child's fourteenth birthday, there is an ensuing successful rapport, and she loses hold over her old charge. But this strain is supported by the introduction of a supplementary force, for Hans sees the marionettes play Faust, and these dolls soon people his world, absorb his life. Mr. Muir has used the intricate pattern of themal relationships in the fugal form...
...when faculty existence could be negatived by the vote of those who would not brook certain faculty legislation is a part of medieval, not modern history. Yet the day of rapport between undergraduate and faculty is apparently more a part of modern history than many perennial pessimists would care to admit...
Robert Benchley in the current "Harper's" never suspected he was to be used as a text for a sermon. Yet his article can well be thus employed. He suggests the necessity for a certain rapport between audience and actor too often completely lacking. Could he not suggest the necessity of such a rapport between lecturer and student...
Secondly, German coke makers and French iron miners are now sufficiently en rapport to make probable shortly a union of the two complementary industries and consequently lower prices for Franco-German steel...
...time when students are notoriously interested in inferior activities, it seems too bad to deal severely with so commendable an institution as the Advocate. But the best way to gain respect for such a magazine is for the editors to command it. Closer rapport between its editors and the instructors of composition courses, even English A, might help in acquiring the best material in college; often young authors are too modest or diffident to submit their work voluntarily. Surely there is more literary gold in Harvard than is being mined