Word: directing
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...delivery the two teams were very evenly matched, although the advantage rested with the University speakers. Wagner spoke with fluency and finish, but too little action; Ewell, for Yale, was especially direct and convincing, but sometimes made a climax in delivery when there was none in thought; Fox was rather unnatural in his style of speaking; Lockwood made up in earnestness what he lacked in variety; Lyman spoke straight to his audience and was effective, though slightly lacking in breath; Grossman, combining ease with vigor and variety, was probably the best speaker of the evening...
...Sidney Lee, Litt.D., lectured in Sanders Theatre last evening upon the subject. "Foreign Influences on Shakespeare." Abundant evidence exists. I said, which points to direct foreign in menaces upon Shakespeare, but we must attribute the skill with which he handle his foreign dramas rather to the gener diffusion of thought during the Renais since and to his own preeminent genin than to the influence of any particular foreign writers. To all his erections intensively gives universal emotions an at the same time, never losing sight his setting, he infuses, in his character the essential racial idiosyncrasies manned by the environment...
Physics 11.--The Theory of Primary and Secondary Batteries, Galvanic Cells; Lead, Iron-Nickel, and Thallium Storage Batteries: Electricity direct from coal. Tu., Th., Sat., at 10. Dr. H. W. Morse...
...Robert Luce '82, representative from Somerville in the Massachusetts Legislature, and author of the "Luce Caucus Reform Bill" spoke last evening in Room 6 of the Union before the Political Club on "Caucus Reform." Mr. Luce has advocated the adoption of direct nomination of party candidates at the primaries as a substitute for the present method of nomination by conventions...
...remedy for this state of affairs, the system of direct nomination by the caucus has been introduced. By this system, the nominating convention is done away with and each voter is given a direct and immediate share in naming the party candidates; the primary becomes in fact a primary election. The plan has already been adopted in several states, and has given almost universal satisfaction. It has aroused an interest among the voters to secure good nominees, and has materially lessened the power of the party "bosses...