Word: direct
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...correctly foreseen the general attitude of the student body toward a national survey of such an unprofitable and tabloid nature. The majority of Harvard men can safely be exempted from any interest in the classification and further glorification of a phase of American college life which has flourished in direct proportion to the undesirable amount of publicity it has received from press and film...
...vice-president of the class, J. W. Potter '30, class secretary, and A. R. Sweezy '29, chairman of last year's Junior Dance Committee, were present, it was decided that the balance of argument against the dance and in favor of it could be adjusted best by a direct appeal to the members of the class concerned...
Harvard has suffered in the past from the unwelcome publicity of inaccurate facts and of accuracy colored to disadvantage. The blame is traceable directly to the laxity which prefers to permit valuable information to leak out comfortably to be mishandled in the press rather than direct its course officially. The University owes it to itself and to its constituents to assume a firm guidance of publicity and insure the official publication in full of Harvard news when it is news...
...Federal inheritance tax be collected on a life insurance policy when the decedent had retained the right to change beneficiaries? The Supreme Court ruled, last week, that such a tax can be collected on such a policy. Such a tax is constitutional because it is "not a direct unapportioned...
...three hours, a correct apportionment of any number of representatives on the basis of any given populations of the states; but this is a matter of technical detail. The result is the important thing, and the result can always be checked up, in case of any dispute, by a direct and straight-forward application of the test...