Word: touche
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...barracks until three weeks ago. A change is setting in those institutions. The old sporting frivolousness is being replaced by earnest endeavor. I think the classics will dwindle and in their stead practical studies such as sociology, political economy, will be sought by these boys who have been in touch with the realities of life. Those officers who have been lucky enough to escape destruction with serious gravity bitten into their character, when they return to their studies will act as a leaven among the new undergraduate bodies...
...learn the available lesson--to make our life's achievements larger. We must open mindedly study to appreciate what is good in the customs and ideas of the American people. We are taught how to talk, how to write from left to right, and how to be in close touch with all phases of actual American life. The spirit of higher education, which enables us to see the social and moral activities of Harvard, finds response in our hearts. It shows us a type of education, different from that of Japan, a type which appears most important in preparing...
...question of having a great many teams with an opportunity for everybody to play, and no cutting from the squads, has been discussed. Anyone in touch with athletics at the University realizes that this system would not get many more men interested in sports than at present. The average man is not going to supply himself with equipment to play on the 13th team, and it is no enjoyment playing in an inadequate outfit. In order to encourage men to come out regularly for sports they must be supplied their equipment. At the present time all men on major sport...
...head. He forgets the human element. But if he glances back over the courses he has taken, he will realize that the ones he liked best were given by men he admired. The characteristics of the instructor impress themselves on a student's mind. From one he gets a touch of humor; from another a new and broadening outlook on the questions...
...member of the Faculty, assisted by a student secretary which he selects from the members; and the time and place of meeting is decided by each group. At the meetings questions of national and international importance are discussed, affording an excellent opportunity for students to keep in touch with world progress. The group leaders are chosen from different departments of the University, so that each student may discuss the questions which are of most interest...