Word: directed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...endure such a continuous current of cold air beating down on one's head as to confine him in his room for a day or so with a bad cold or a sore throat. Prof. Childs was compelled to stay in his house two days last week as a direct result of his zeal in trying to find some books in the library. All this cannot be laid to the riegligence of the employees of that building, since pure air must be obtained even at the risk of severe consequences; but there is no justification for the college authorities...
President Robinson, of Brown, believes students should be admitted direct from preparatory schools, without admittance examinations at the college...
Though we all regret that necessity seems to render our direct contact with the President of the University so limited, every true son of Harvard must gratefully recognize the great services done...
...washing of several students is done in one lot, and the clothes are dried in the open air, thus subjecting them to every chance of infection, whether by direct contact with the soiled linen of some diseased individual or by the subtle chances of contamination from germs carried by the wind, as dust is carried, or brought by flies - notorious sowers of sickness. It would not be very difficult to start a college laundry, a steam laundry, where soiled linen could easily, if necessary, be disinfected, and where at least the sources whence clothes come would be known...
...coachers as with the base runners. True, the visitors' catcher was a hard man on whom to steal bases, but a number of our runners were very slow, and could not have handled them-selves much more awkwardly than they did, had they tried. The Harvard team, in direct contrast to our own, were adepts in the art, and ran bases like professionals...