Word: touched
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...became a custom for members of the Glee Club to gather at some spot in the Yard on warm evenings and sing for a little while merely for the pleasure of it, much would be done to cultivate more enjoyable popular singing, as well as to add a delightful touch to the Yard that has usually been experienced only on Class...
...that the voter has a better hold on them, and that they can be more intelligently elected. The great body of voters are really ignorant of actual municipal problems, and the only true reform lies in some broadening method of getting the people into closer touch with the city business. The more members of the council, the better the government will be, because more voters will know of its actions. The New England town meeting is the simplest and best form, because of its extreme personal relations. The German cities have perhaps the best municipal government with universal...
...that the Harvard Dining Association is prosperously launched on its new plan we wish to offer a suggestion to the new committee of representatives, whose duty will be to bring the members of the hall into closer touch with the directors, and increase if possible the attractiveness of the present system. They by laws contain a provision that "no tobacco shall be used on the premises." We have found one of the chief objections to the hall in this useless provision. The old maxim of "After breakfast walk a mile, after dinner rest a while," can scarcely be observed, when...
Yesterday, in his characteristic way, Professor Zueblin put clearly before his audience what many have blunderingly tried to express. As we are thrilled by the nearness of those we love, one of the holiest of human emotions, just so are we thrilled by nearness to nature, by the first touch of spring, by contact with enthusiasm, and by witnessing even so trivial a thing as some great game. The attraction is born in us and we cling to it at all costs. For intercollegiate games it is but one of the arguments, but one which has been forcefully...
...principal cities, with a view, not of creating a new national board of trade, but a small delegated body with a permanent seat in Washington, which would represent the entire commercial and trade interests of the country, and would not only co-operate, but be constantly in touch, with it and other departments in promoting the best interests of commerce at home and abroad. The governments of our leading commercial rivals have such co-operation, and they are largely profiting by the arrangement. I am pleased to tell you that this organization of commercial interests is making excellent progress, under...