Word: acquaintanceship
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Dates: during 1912-1912
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This environment the new Freshman dormitories are designed to furnish. In the first place all the members of the class are to be drawn together on a level basis of mutual acquaintanceship. All men from various localities and countries, and representing different modes of thought and various forms of activity, intermingle and compete with one another. Thus the environment is provided in which can develop at the very beginning of the career of every class all that is best and most worth while in the complexity of college opportunities...
...none is more distinctly worth while to the student than that of coming into closer touch with the Faculty. Too often it happens that a man knows his professor only as a lecturer. He finds that in some of the larger courses it is impossible for a more intimate acquaintanceship to spring...
...will last about three hours and every member of the two dormitories should drop in during the course of the evening to renew old and make new acquaintances. The series of smokers will continue into the winter, and it is hoped will serve as a great stimulus to wider acquaintanceship and closer friendship among the Seniors...