Word: contacter
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...best time to meet one's classmates is during the Freshman year. The Freshman Dormitories were built to help co-ordinate the class but unfortunately, the advantages which they offer, have not been fully utilized. Athletes develop a broad acquaintance with the many men with whom they come in contact. Publication work offers a similar opportunity. But the great mass of undergraduates pass their first college year with only a handful of friends. As a result, many do not even know those who are nominated for class officers and consequently show no interest in elections. The failure to take advantage...
...purpose for the establishment of this corps was to give the younger officers thorough grounding in all phases of consular work and by assignment to the larger and more important offices and contact with the broader problems which confront the Service. In this way they are exceptionally well trained for the grades which they are later to receive. The examinations for Consular Assistants and Student Interpreters, however, are less exacting...
Besides the opportunity to advance to the highest consular position maintained by the Government, the language trained officer is brought in contact with work of absorbing interest and can be a real influence in the tremendous new problems of contact between the civilizations of the East and West...
...homes are not fulfilling their task of fundamental education. And to quote Professor West in regard to the responsibility of the college in this direction: "Students are being taught to answer quite glibly academic questions of a decided erudite character, while at the same time they are losing contact with the world about them". It is the old appeal not to isolate the college from the outside world. Yet this appeal should not be made to the college alone, but to the individual. The college has a right to assume that its undergraduates possess the rudimentary facts of knowledge...
...foul is simple, as it is called for charging in, and making bodily contact by the third man going into the play. It is a personal foul in the amateur rules, four of which retire the player from the game. It is a mighty good rule too, as it serves to make the game much faster and cleaner...