Word: contacter
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...book entitled "The Native Problem in Africa" in two volumes and 2146 pages to include the results of his study in that continent. It is the most comprehensive work of its kind ever compiled about Africa and is designed to elucidate problems of representatives of European governments in contact with the negro population...
...advent of a time "when Yale men will wade into Paradise Lost for the greater glory of Yale" or the introduction of "the evils of spectacular athletic competition into scholarship" there should be little cause for worry. The want of "a good stage manager" and the "element of personal contact" should be enough to guarantee against the commercialization of scholarship or the fostering of a desire to win by any methods rather than to learn through sound study. At worst the series of scholastic contests started last Monday can do no more than to bury themselves in gentle oblivion...
...either scholarship or intellectual ability or both. But to imagine that such tests will command continued public attention is to give the public too much credit. The public is not interested, you might even say that students generally are not interested, in any combat where the element of personal contact is lacking. It will go to football games and hockey games because it loves to be present when body hits body with a resounding thud. Some of it will go to debates because there it can watch mind meet mind and see the intellectual sparksfly. But any contest, where...
Rustication. The Dictator sternly warned party executives that they must not lose contact with the masses, nor ignore or stifle criticism, nor fail to take effective precautions in advance of looming difficulties. Each of them must spend, he said, at least one month per year in the provinces, doing local party work...
...dance is held each year to provide some means of closer contact between the various classes of the Engineering School...