Word: directed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...land values would be direct, economically collected, simple, incapable of being shifted, just and easily borne: Am. So. Sci. Ass'n, discussion by E. Benjamin Andrews, S. B. Clarke, Lewis F. Post, W. L. Garrison, and James R. Carret...
...some time past we have been hearing the usual complaints of the poor financial support which the freshmen are giving their crew; and now a direct appeal from the management comes to us. He needs one thousand dollars more in subscriptions, and the class doesn't seem disposed to give it. The question appears to be a very simple one: Is the crew to go to New London or not? Unless the money is raised by a certain time, the athletic committee has said that the crew shall not go to New London. That decision seems to be clear enough...
...desire on the part of all those in any way interested to know where the money comes from and for what it is spent. In order to have some responsible person to control this great fund, a graduate treasurer was last year appointed for the purpose not of taking direct charge of all the receipts and expenses of the various teams, but to have a general supervision of all the accounts and receive whatever surplus remains at the end of the year. The different teams are allowed to keep a fixed amount of the surplus, but the rest goes into...
...Faculty began to restrict the liberties of students on probation, and later made attendance on lectures more compulsory, and obliged men to return to college on the prescribed days. Everything tends toward the more direct supervision of the undergraduate, which is for the best if not carried too far. When the tone of the college has been raised to the proper point, it will be harmful for the Faculty not to recognize the fact. There is a limit to the amount of beneficial supervision just as there is a point where supervision is necessary...
...points in and about the city of Chicago; evening courses in College and University subjects: correspondence courses and special courses in a scientific study of the Bible. The central university, located at Chicago, will operate through a system of preparatory branch schools scattered throughout the country, under the direct control of the central University. The regular curriculum may be dispensed with and bright and ambitious students allowed to complete the college course as circumstances direct. The committee on buildings favor adopting the seminary plan,- that is, to arrange the recitation rooms in suites of three to five rooms around...