Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program this year has been shaped by the officers of the Model League with a special view to the attraction of students of wide and varied interests to participate in the sessions. Students of government and modern history will discover many topics the consideration of which will directly touch their fields of study. For the first time, a strong bid for the participation of students in economics has been made in the shape of the committee to discuss economic questions. The chief value of the Assembly, however, is still for the collegian who, while his activities do not lie directly...
...entertain at meals and at other times some of the foreign students now studying at Harvard, the Foreign Student Committee at Phillips Brooks House has organized committees of five men each in each House. By means of these committees, residents in any House who desire to get in touch with any representatives of the 40 nationalities in the University will be able...
...groups. The Brooks House Committee has been approached from time to time by undergraduates in the House who desire to make the acquaintance of some nationality or other. In obtaining the students by means of these newly appointed committees in the Houses, Brooks House will have to get in touch with them by mail and for this reason Americans desiring to meet foreign students must give notice several days in advance either to Brooks House or to the committee in their House...
...this appointment, President Hoover returns to the custom of selecting an Eastern man to fill our chief diplomatic position. Exceptional circumstances have sometimes justified a change in this custom. Normally, however, the ambassador should come from those states which by geographical position and economic relations are in closer touch with English affairs. From this point of view the choice is an excellent...
Most of the graduates of the School are in close touch with the placement bureau, and of the 5,000 alumni approximately 155 who had definitely lost their positions because of the depression appealed to the placement bureau for assistance in relocating themselves. The bureau helped 63 of this group to find permanent positions and also found temporary positions for a substantial number in addition...