Word: contacter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...decision of the League of Nations to issue annually a list of the six hundred best books published in all countries during the preceding year is one of great interest. Whether it will accomplish the avowed purpose of "closer intellectual contact" however, must be left for time to tell. Although the plan will stimulate the translation of foreign books and their greater diffusion, its most commendable feature is that of letting each country do its own selecting. If the choices were made by a commission of the League, they would be open to criticism from every country, with the result...
Both views are at once right and wrong. Ideally, of course, Harvard should be a place where men eager and even determined to acquire knowledge and wisdom are brought into personal contact with teachers eager to instruct and determined to avail themselves of every art to stimulate and aid the intellectual advancement of individual students...
...College publication takes to its bosom the woes of the undergraduate "whose desire for knowledge is distorted by restrictions, and sicklied o'er by contact with the chill, thus must thou do! Ambition burns, but it is shut within a hamper, with the Faculty and the System sitting upon the lid. The tyrants...
...contemplate an institution where professors of distinction will gather facts about international trade, racial psychology, commercial and military geography, diplomatic usage and experience, effects of artificial economic barriers upon international amity, effects of new inventions to expedite communication and all the hundreds of things that enter into contact of nation with nation...
...administrators of the College have long realized the importance of personal contact between student and teacher, but as the college continued to grow and classes continued to increase proportionately, the problem became more perplexing. Individual members of the faculty have in many cases done all they could to meet the student more than half way. They have invited him to their houses and welcomed him on every possible occasion. In this way many students have been able to know as friends those who, to others, were cold lecturers in a crowded class room...