Word: touche
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...addition, men who do not come from towns which support Harvard Clubs could on graduation form clubs in their towns. Any increase in the number of such spheres of Harvard influence and the close touch with undergraduate affairs which correspondence could effect should be the means both of crystallizing the influence of the University in the various communities, and of enabling the undergraduate body to get the best out of the experience and influence of the alumni...
...advantages of a dean for each class are obvious. One dean, in a college the size of Harvard, has not time to keep in touch with everyone, and can only deal with such men as are on probation or near the line. With an increased number of deans, however, every man would be brought into closer contact with the College Office, and a sympathy between the men and the Faculty, which does not now exist, would spring up. A step in the right direction was taken by the appointment of a Freshman dean, and it is to be hoped that...
...Then came a great revolution, the discovery of printing. Now men became a scarcer commodity than the printed book, and the exchange of men diminished. A man, however, has a magnetism which no book can replace; a man can reach to depths which no book can ever hope to touch...
President Lowell and M. Bayet, Director of Higher Education of France are both strongly in favor of the scheme as it will surely strengthen the educational ties between the countries. President Lowell also desires the acceptance of the plan as it will materially help Harvard to keep in touch with the rapid intellectual movement which is now going on in France. For these reasons, it seems extremely likely that the arrangements will soon be concluded...
...article contributed to the Monthly for February, 1910, Mr. Robert Herrick spoke of a former ideal of literary art which "withstood various assaults from the practical, who wished the Monthly to 'get more in touch' -- abhorrent phrase -- with this or that,--athletics, the graduates, etc." "The magazine," he continued, "at any rate in my day, preserved a fine uselessness. I hope it does still!" The Monthly is certainly getting very much "in touch." The present number contains one brief essay, three 'stories, and five poems, at least one, "To a School fellow," by C. V. Wright, being of real excellence...