Word: touched
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With Harvard University students representing 47 states in this country and 27 foreign lands, if the 4,724 students could all come in touch with each other on a basis of mutual sympathy and inquiry, what an educational advantage there would be in this cosmopolitanism! As a matter of fact, however, the mass of the students are as blissfully unmindful that their fellow students are lessons in geography and history and sociology as the mass of the people in this city are unheeding of what they could learn from their fellow-residents from other sections of the globe, if they...
...suffers through the story by Mr. Wright. Mr. Paulding has not made an important contribution to American fiction, but he has written easily the best thing in the Monthly, which leads one to hope that he will keep on writing college stories with the same delicate and playful touch...
...more, for I am prostrated at the less of one of my most valued friends. Mortal tongue cannot paint a picture which will touch the brilliancy of Professor Muensterberg's career." --Boston Post...
...throughout the season marked him as the most agile and at the same time the most aesthetic conductor of cheering in the country. Fast down the field and sure in his handling of grunts, Bennett at the same time combined a certain finesse of gesture with a lightness of touch that rivaled even Nijinsky, the famous Russian cheer leader. I have seen the Michigan leader, apparently boxed by substitutes on the side lines, leap high into the air and with a deft gesture of the index finger draw from his cheering section a perfect salvo, sometimes two salvi, of applause...
...have not been to a small college can appreciate the value of a close relationship between professor and student. As one of our eminent Harvard graduates has said, "It is worth all the school's cost if the long discipline brings each one of us into living touch with one real instructor, one whose word reaches the soul and creates that hunger of the mind whose satisfaction is our education." Such friendship is of mutual benefit, for it ennobles the student and it humanizes the instructor...