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...Librarian of the City of St. Louis would spend more time trying to make his library an up-to-date institution where one can keep in some sort of half-hazard contact with the progress of the modern mind instead of writing notes to the editor of TIME, he would be of much more benefit to humanity...
...like comedy, especially the type in which I am playing now. It is meant for a small theatre, where the actors can be more intimate with the audience. When a contact of this kind is made, for some reason or the other the play always seems to go off much better...
Charles Townsend Copeland has been one of those rare scholars who have truly appraised the personal relation between teacher and pupil. He relied more on direct contact than on lectures, books and formulas, but his courses nevertheless have been popular, and the fame of his readings has traveled far beyond collegiate circles. But it has been by summoning the members of his composition course "English 23," to his rooms in Hollis to read aloud their themes to him, and by gathering others together on winter evenings to exchange ideas about everything this side of the moon, that his influence...
...Polo, unfortunately, is an expensive game," asserted Mr. Milburn, "but for large colleges it is as capable of paying its way as football. As a sporting spectacle it contains all the elements of speed, skill, and physical contact that are appreciated by an American audience...
...Near and Far East, and did much to develop the scholarly study of these regions in American Universities. After he gave up the conduct of History 1 in 1905, his teaching and writing centered more and more about recent diplomatic history. To undergraduates he brought a sense of fresh contact with the affairs of the wider world, while among graduate students he trained an active group of acknowledged experts in the history of international relations. Many students he inspired and guided to enter the foreign service of their country. Both students and colleagues found in him a firm friend...