Word: basal
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Dates: during 1889-1889
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...professors at Harvard were complaining that they are fast becoming exhausted by unintermitted intercourse with students." If such has been the effect on the professor of closer contact with the student, it is to be regretted; it certainly destroys the theory which demands that closer contact, for the basal principle of the theory is that the closer intercourse will strengthen, rather than exhaust, both the instructor and the instructed...