Word: direct
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...East. The keynote of this year's program will be a study of reconstructional problems as applicable to college students, and a scrutiny of world obligations and undergraduate social standards. The program which has been drawn up by the committee in charge aims to bring forward the most direct appeals of the present period of readjustment while utilizing the experience and methods of conferences in other years...
Aside from all this, there is one crowning advantage which it seems that the building of Beaune University by direct action of the United States War Department should aid in translating into practical fact. This advantage would be Federal supervision of education, with a view to its general improvement. We are far from advocating state subsidies or aids to institutions of learning, or paternalism or active central control or domination of educational development in any form. We are not hankering to take orders from any federal "School-master-General," But at the same time it is a significant fact that...
...confident that the earnest desire of the majority of students here for a direct and authoritative explanation of the League situation would make it more worth while, if the Student Council and the University authorities are so minded, to secure another speaker. Of course Mr. Taft is the most prominent available leader of constructive thought on this subject. But there is no dearth of other fair-minded and serious Americans who have studied the problem. Perhaps one or more of them would be glad to address a collegiate League of Nations mass-meeting...
Secretary Glass, in his speech in Boston Tuesday evening, pointed out the great advantage of having the Victory Loan subscribed by the people, rather than by the banks. This statement has a direct bearing on the drive at the University, for the number of subscribers to the loan has been woefully small. It is possible in the three remaining days of the drive for nearly every man to buy a bond, and by so doing the total will be much more representative of the University, than the present ratio of subscriptions...
...make the undergraduate pay more attention to his books. That is, to increase his desire to learn; stimulate his curiosity and his ambition and make him conscious of his mental inferiority. Why do undergraduates slave and work over their extra-curriculum activities? Because they make a direct appeal to ambition and pride. The thought that they may derive great good from these activities does not generally enter a student's head until long after he has graduated from college. Every undergraduate activity that is worth while has to be bought at the price of a long and strenuous competition. This...