Word: closer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...five times nearer Europe owing to improved transportation facilities. We have acquired interests in Alaska, the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines which must be protected. Our commerce, oftentimes carried in foreign-owned ships, penetrates to nearly every corner of the globe. In the growing interdependence of nations and their closer contact with one another, our country has by no means remained isolated; the nations of Europe were not at war three years when the United States was drawn into the conflict. World peace is no longer a provincial concern, its violation affecting only the parties actively engaged in the dispute...
...talking down' to anyone, and fiercely resented it, if anyone tried to 'talk down' to him. He was sure to see the force of both the Faculty and the undergraduate points of view, and was in himself a solution of the perennial problem of 'how to bring about a closer relation between teacher and student.' Throughout his life he had struggled heroically against the galling restrictions imposed by a physical infirmity, and achieved results which would have been impossible for a spirit less gallant. When the great war came, and it was evident that he could not go to fight...
...Closer co-ordination between the Harvard Alumni Association and the Associated Harvard Clubs will be the probable result of the twenty-first annual meeting of the Associated Clubs at Buffalo, N. Y. on June 6 and 7. The date for this meeting was announced yesterday by Frederick W. Burlingham '91, president of the clubs...
...question of closer co-operation between the two associations of alumni has been studied by a committee of men representing each group, and the findings of the committee will be presented at the meeting...
...York, N. Y., Feb. 4, 1919.--At a meeting in this city this afternoon of the athletic heads of Yale, Princeton, and the University, represented respectively by Professor Corwin, Dean McLenahan and Professor R. B. Merriman '96, the question of closer triangular athletic alliance among the three colleges was under discussion. It was believed that a closer athletic relationship would tend to form a high standard of athletic rules which would be submitted to the college athletic world on the basis of fair-play and not in a spirit of imposing their will upon other colleges. The definite decisions made...