Word: touch
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Some time ago in commenting upon the fact that so large a propostion of athletes from the preparatory schools go to Yale rather than to Harvard, we suggested that this was due to the fact that Yale, so far as her athletic interests were concerned, kept in closer touch with the preparatory schools. We might have enforced this suggestion by showing how, outside of the field of athletics, Harvard had strengthened her influence on the schools...
...alumni of the Boston Latin School was held last evening at the D. U. rooms. About fifty men were present. Mr. Moses Merrill, at present head master of the school, gave a very interesting and informal talk. He laid stress on the desirability of the alumni keeping in touch with their school and offered to do all in his power to further the interest of the association at Harvard...
...believe that another fact underlies and explains both statements. It is that Yale, or rather athletic Yale, keeps in closer touch with the preparatory schools than does Harvard. The average school boy has a profound admiration for greatness, of which, in his mind, distinction at college is one of the highest manifestations. It is to this well-known school boy characteristic that Yale appeals, by occasionally sending her prominent men to the schools where they were fitted, to give advice on athletic matters, perhaps to disclose a new play in football, or a good trick in baseball, - in a word...
...John R. Mott, one of the college secretaries of the International Committee of the College Young Men's Christian Association, is to be the guest of the Harvard Christian Association for a few days. During the last seven years his work has brought him into touch with college life everywhere nearly throughout the United States. He has been travelling this fall among the colleges of the Middle States, and now comes to New England. His report on student work, religious and philanthropic, in other colleges will be of special interest. A meeting will be held in Holden Chapel Sunday evening...
...vision of the great games, and he speaks at first enthusiastically for there was no one who would not do his best to win or get a high place in the Olympic games. As Paul turns aside to the race of life there comes to his tone a touch of sadness. That is the race that can be won only by long and patient toil. All Paul can say is "let us run with patience." There are many who do not run at all, who walk, who creep, some even who sit down. All of us are sometimes discouraged...