Word: direct
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...time so strong has been the desire for a thorough cultivation and development of all the intellectual powers, with no regard to professional or pecuniary objects, that a new word to express it, or at least an old one with increased meaning, has come into use, In direct contrast to such a spirit is the system of rewards and punishments which Harvard is fast shaking off, - and of such a system is not the proposed plan a natural outgrowth? A few would be made happy by outstripping their competitors, most of whom would, of course, be disappointed and disgusted with...
...Springfield course has been thoroughly tried, and has turned out so bad that all are agreed that we must select a new racing-ground. At Springfield the finish is five miles in a direct line from the city and about seven by the road, and the railroad and hotel accommodations are not very good. That, however, might be put up with, were it not for the fact that it is generally considered necessary in boat-races to have water to row on. There is, to be sure, some water in the Connecticut, but not enough. Nearly in the middle...
...years of a college course, to know, by bitter experience, that implicit reliance cannot be placed upon the electives to be offered in future years. The benefit is small which is secured from a smattering of a score of different studies having no distinct connection and tending towards no direct result. In the case in hand, had not the College been so poor, it would have been possible, perhaps, to have appointed a new instructor, after the necessary withdrawal of the one first selected, and so have prevented the disappointment which we have suffered. But the lamentable poverty...
...Harvard man if to no one else, - a crew wearing the magenta and spurting with a power that made the boat quiver and jump at every stroke, and all this with perfect regularity, for the brown backs moved together like clock-work. As they passed, a glance in a direct line over the stern of Harvard across the river clearly showed the backs of the other crews. Then Harvard stopped rowing, and in a short time after Yale did the same. The scene which followed was indescribable. No one tried to be cool or rational, but all preferred rushing about...
...direct means to the study of statecraft, the College offers but a single elective in political economy. Without asking whether more ought not to be demanded, it is to be regretted this one is not better patronized. Probably there is nothing within its range which it is not incumbent on every educated citizen to know. Political science, it must be admitted, is a dry subject at first, and bristling with knotty problems for those who would go beneath the surface. But this does not in the least make against its importance or its claims...