Word: touche
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which several colleges are introducing to their curricula. The most successful one at present is that of the University of Missouri, which runs the daily paper of the town, on a thoroughly businesslike basis. There is one at New York University, which has the advantage of being in immediate touch with the centre of progressive journalism, and can therefore obtain the advice of almost any prominent metropolitan newspaper man. The Pulitzer bequest is to be used to start a school of journalism at Columbia along entirely new lines. These departments are not liable to the single criticism which is sometimes...
...himself believed an entirely different person when he is called upon to use his ability as a safe-breaker to release a child from the bank vault. This he does in a very intense scene, thus disclosing his identify. His enemy, however, wilfully allows him to escape the one touch of unadulterated melodrama in the play and the final curtain sees Valentine and his sweet-heart happy again...
Based on the statement of one who is in the closest touch with the football situation here. We announced that over one half of the team was on probation. This was, as we discovered afterwards, an exaggeration for only three out of the eleven were in this standing. At the same time although we are glad to see that we were wrong as to figures, we cannot retract our words of condemnation of those Freshmen who will be needed next fall. For instance three men escaped probation only by getting two C's apiece; among seven men we find only...
...educators in Europe. He founded a course in the University of Berlin given up entirely to the teaching of German to foreigners, and now holds that professor-ship. He also organized a cosmopolitan club in his university which has done a great deal to bring foreign students in closer touch with German student life. Dr. Paszkowski is especially interested in American universities and colleges and is now making a tour of America, lecturing at the various educational centres throughout the country. This will be his only lecture in or about Boston, and will be open to the public...
...spite of these efforts. At mid-years many a Senior adviser cannot recognize in the Yard the advisee whom in September he so cordially "welcomed"-and forgot. In their fear of appearing too patronizing, the Seniors have refrained from "chasing up" these men, apparently at cost of losing touch with them altogether. The relation should be a real and vital...