Word: contacted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...There is a remedy for the great evil which has taken such possession here, and which has brought our athletics to the deplorable state in which they exist at present. That remedy lies in the students themselves. It can come from no other source. It may be awakened from contact with the world outside, or from some reading which will result in giving insight; but the solution none the less lies with the students. To make a fool of one's self is, no doubt, a great sin; but that it is the cardinal sin of the calendar...
...Tech half-backs found the leaving of a marking string lying across the field more dangerous still when he took a header over it during the game. Home plate, as I said before, was not removed till a player had to be carried away from previous contact with it. These things were all owing to the gross negligence of the managers; but with every precaution, the ground is dangerous and unfit to play on: it is covered with cinders, full of holes, has a running track and a base-ball diamond on it, and above all, is absurdly small. Every...
Though we all regret that necessity seems to render our direct contact with the President of the University so limited, every true son of Harvard must gratefully recognize the great services done...
...washing of several students is done in one lot, and the clothes are dried in the open air, thus subjecting them to every chance of infection, whether by direct contact with the soiled linen of some diseased individual or by the subtle chances of contamination from germs carried by the wind, as dust is carried, or brought by flies - notorious sowers of sickness. It would not be very difficult to start a college laundry, a steam laundry, where soiled linen could easily, if necessary, be disinfected, and where at least the sources whence clothes come would be known...
...broader lines. Men are the same all the world over, and why should we expect the students of one college to be afflicted with greater sins or gifted with greater virtues than those of another. We live a very self-absorbed life here at Harvard, and our contact with other colleges is only in the open air and on the athletic field. We make no approach to one another in our study-rooms or in social life. A glimpse into the social life of our friends at Princeton must be welcome to many of us and we print the extracts...