Word: touching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these intangible superiorities, known only in their effects, are gauged by the Binet tests, the implications cannot be uniform in each case. Superintelligent children with normal balance are, according to Mr. M. V. O'Shea, natural leaders of their contemporaries and should be permitted to retain the invaluable common touch, early in play groups, later in divergent associations. Those who show unfavorable balance records must be directed to humanizing pursuits, and, above all, liberated from the chilly solitude of superiority...
...works shown are the product of one or two brushes. To any visitor who looks at each new marking card with the hope of finding a familiar name, there is a decided monotony in the exhibition. Presumably not too serious an effort was made to get in touch with all students of Harvard and Radcliffe who dabble in oils or delight in making scratches on copper plates, or in drawing sketches of surrounding objects during lecture hours. It is unfortunate that the Society neglected to do this, for there are undoubtedly many excellent examples, the making of undergraduates, which...
...never quite got a grip on life", Dr. Rosenbach whose "little gold pencil flipped up" -- all these and a hundred more slide into memory and out again with epigrammatic case. There is nothing new or startling or illuminating; but through all the superficiality there is a sure touch, here flippancy, here sober sentimentality. Mr. Hill, if nothing else, is a good reporter...
Finally, I urge that this Committee get in touch with all officers of the University who seem in a position to forward the activities of the committee. Indeed, I conceive that the University should perfect its own policy toward the advising of Freshmen; and one of the first moves in this direction might be a meeting between the proper officials and the members of the CRIMSON Committee...
Apostolic Delegate to the U. S. is an office that has stood since 1893. The post carries no diplomatic rank, the Delegate simply keeping in touch with U. S. Catholics, interpreting Church law, speaking for the Pope sometimes. Member of an aristocratic Roman family, Archbishop Fumasoni-Biondi was sent to Washington in 1922 after having held similar positions in the East Indies and Japan for six years. In May 1927 he felt obliged to state that the Vatican had no interest in Alfred E. Smith's candidacy for President. In 1929, the Apostolic Delegate called on President Hoover. Archbishop...