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...this terror, gentlemen? No! It is hardly even severity. Is it terrorism? No! These measures are measures of social hygiene, of national prophylactics. I remove certain individuals from contact with their fellowmen, as a doctor would segregate one affected with infectious disease...
...fleet of North American Rotarians it was announced that radio communication?or "contact," as Rotarians say?would be continuous between ships all the way across the ocean so that the junket-ers could exchange messages and keep tabs on what all were doing. All six ships had their entertainment committees, to think up daily "programs" such as Rotarians enjoy at home only once per week. Each ship was laden with "inexpensive (and expensive) articles to be distributed as prizes." (Rotarians love to play games.) "Among other things sent in," announced The Rotarian (official monthly), "was a topcoat, rather a useful...
...bond between professor and student has been sorely stretched during recent years, due to the expansion of the universities and the increase in enrollment. At Harvard opportunities for contact are more prevalent perhaps than at any other equally large but less unified institutions: there are faculty-student teas are the Union in the Fall and, in addition, many professors welcome informal calls at their homes. But neither these nor similar methods of bringing the student closer to his teacher has quite succeeded in training mentor and pupil to the realization that each is, after all, more than a machine...
...Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, was a large, blocky woman of tremendous, athletic vitality, and of a personal magnetism so great that she was sometimes called "the most popular princess of her time." The present Queen and Empress forged her own naturally retiring and bashful disposition in the heat of contact with her dynamic mother. They were more than usually devoted, and sometimes showed their affection in fierce but not violent quarrels. The death of her fiance, the late Duke of Clarence, and death of her mother perhaps gave to Queen Mary that final trial of spirit which renders her understanding...
Livingston Hall 3L, whose position as head of the Law School student advisors has brought him into close contact with the needs of the Law School students, said that the new dining hall, if erected, should find support among these students, though its ultimate success would depend more on the quality of the food served than on the general need felt...