Word: directe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge, after some hesitation, let it be known that she would forego seeing John Coolidge graduated at Amherst College and go direct to Brule with the President...
...student body that it recommended. After the second year, under the proffered plan, men who choose to elect honors will receive a distinctive degree, and be differentiated in privilege and work from those who prefer to complete their studies in the usual manner. This suggested discrimination is a direct result of the finding that the majority of the undergraduates, gentlemen but not scholars, neither desire, nor are capable of any great scholastic accomplishment, that their study shares their interest with a number of legitimate pursuits, and that it is but just to free the genuine students from retardation...
Tennis proved to be the strong sport in Gore this year, and was the direct cause of bringing the title to that dormitory. Fifteen points, or more than half of Gore's total, were gained through tennis...
...many prizes and fellowships offering a trip to Europe as the solid flesh to accompany the more nebulous haze of distinction lent by them, the larger part are a direct result of war-time and early post-war idealism. In those days of friendship and hatred, hope and vindictiveness, the idea of greater intercourse among nations as a cure for world ills found its widest acceptance; and the generosity of people on both sides of the ocean established a considerable number of exchange studentships. Since that time, other interests than purely philanthropic ones have bestirred themselves, and while these latter...
...Education: It is that reconstruction or reorganization of experience which adds to the meaning of experience, and which increases ability to direct the course of subsequent experience...