Word: directed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Council at present utilizes very few of the functions which originally made it a Student Council. No longer does it make any real effort to "create the general sentiment that it is a question of individuals and college honor to maintain a strict attention to scholastic duties" or exercise direct jurisdiction over individual students. These approaches are incompatible with the Harvard theories of independence and individuality. No longer does it exercise the powers of advising student organizations concerning their conduct, of checking up on the scholastic misdemeanors of students, of guarding against evils in the conduct of athletics...
...Such a direct slap across the face made His Majesty's Government uncomfortable, but it by no means closed the British Cabinet split, by no means halted new hints and proposals by Mr. Eden to Dr. von Hoesch...
During the trial there was no direct evidence against Ratanji-Ruxton because nobody had seen him kill or dismember so much as a fly. The Crown produced the patched blouse in which a faceless head had been found wrapped in The Devil's Beef Tub and asked the stepmother of Mary Jane Rogerson to comment upon it as a witness before the jury. "Yes, that is the blouse," said Mrs. Rogerson. "I can tell because I put on the patch. It was an old blouse, but I bought it at a jumble sale for Mary - she had wanted...
...considered last week the most damaging link in the chain of circumstantial evidence drawn by the Crown about the accused man's neck. On the last day of the trial, Ratanji jittered, wept, frequently wiped with a handkerchief his profusely perspiring hands. Yet there was still no direct evidence. After the jury verdict of guilty, Justice Singleton put on the black cap which in Britain means that sentence of Death is to be pronounced. "The law knows but one sentence," he cried, "for the terrible crime you have committed...
...appointment of the deputy is the direct result of charges by such elder statesmen as Sir Austen Chamberlain, K. G., that the "thinking machine" of the Prime Minister has proved inadequate to carry the burdens imposed by his rank as Chairman of the Committee of Imperial Defense. In London it was universally predicted that a man of conspicuous energy and brains would be chosen. Among the capital's more blatant newsorgans each has had its favorite candidate, the most arresting being the Daily Mail's choice of an Australian, famed Stanley Melbourne Bruce, kinetic, Conservative, air-minded...