Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Faculty Adviser been given a fair chance? Here the initiative plainly rests with the student. If he prefers to reduce the Faculty Adviser to the position of an automaton, it is not for the latter to dispute the choice. Doubtless he would rather become a counselor and friend, a constant link between the University and the individual student, as he was designed to be, but it certainly should not be a part of his duty to make personal calls on students, or otherwise flatter them into making use of him. If he is to make any intelligent contribution to future...
...Democrats" also claim that "Nobody would care to see these benighted Knights of Capital punished, least of all . . . . . the victim himself." But certainly when there is nobody with the desire to prosecute, one has little basis for even an academic Reign of Terror. We wonder just what our young friends would like to have us do. And by the way it strikes us that our Freshman friend by making this molehill into a mountain may have been attempting to make personal capital by advertising the College in a false light...
...fought for Democracy and we got Prohibition and Spanish Influenza." Whether prohibition be good or not the reaction against it is a healthy American one. The bloody Bolshevik forgets his paroxysms, the politician his politics, the average man forgets his mediocrity in a loud protest for his friend the bottle. If this is not the voice of the people, what...
...French litterateurs, having been a member of the Academy since 1898, and at present an officer in the Legion of Honor. The title and idea of "Sire" was suggested to him when quite a young man upon a visit to the Orleans a Blois. As he waited for his friend in a beautiful reception room, an old, white-haired woman entered and greeted...
Little can be added to the appreciation of Dr. Schenck which Professor Merriman has written. Yet there is one feature of his life at Harvard to which tribute can not be too often made: he was the intimate friend not only of his colleagues in the Faculty, but also of a large part of the undergraduate body. That indefinable contact-a bond which held beyond the walls of the lecture hall-was characteristic of him; many more famous masters of learning have sought it and failed. He was first and always our friend; kind, sympathetic, tolerant, never the teacher...