Word: touched
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...months since its foundation, and the organization is powerful and popular enough to exert a strong influence in the community about it. The circulation of books is the least part of the scheme of the Reading Room; only by the indirect influence of men exerted through personal touch with children in the clubs can the organization help to uplift the tone and character of the neighborhood...
...body and intellect. Impurity, intemperance, hypocrisy, intellectual pride, unbelief, these are only a few among the many that assail him. The battle which every man must wage against these temptations is a hard one, but it is only by this battle and the victory, that we may come in touch with the Living God. One of the most common of these temptations is impurity, in mind, body or imagination. It is a sin whose wages are death to success, to self-respect, to reputation, death to mind and body...
...exhaustive criticism of that novelists' work. "Wanship, out West" by F. W. Reynolds '03 is a sketch of a dusty little Western town,--interesting because it is written with the appreciation of true feeling. There are two stories.--"The Line of Least Resistance" by J. G. Forbes, and "Nettle Touch" by J. LaFarge. They are good stories and somewhat similar in purpose, each bringing out in an incident of the life of a young man the prevalence of the better instincts over the worse...
...communication in Saturday's CRIMSON, concerning "a tutor of eight year's experience," gives an interpretation to the words "an experienced assistant in close touch with men in the Department" which was never intended, and assumes that the tutor in question uses this phrase as a "misleading advertising device." I wish to state, therefore, in justice to myself, my assistant, and the men who tutor with me, that both interpretation and assumption are incorrect, and, it seems, to me, uncharitable. Perhaps your correspondent will recognize that he formed his conclusions hastily and ill-advisedly when I state that the phrase...
...implication in this circular that officers of instruction in the courses in Economics aid in coaching of this kind, or are "in touch" with it, is quite without warrant. And it is hardly necessary for me to say that assistants and other instructors do not engage directly in tutoring in their courses. The statement above quoted is simply a misleading advertising device. F. W. TAUSSIG...