Word: direction
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...building is so subdivided that there will be a special room for three classes of readers-first a "conversation room," in which the noisier work of dealing out books can go on; second, a series of alcoves intended to hold the working library to which a professor can direct his pupils in graduate or undergraduate study, and third, a reading room open to the public, for special work...
...club appointed a committee of four graduates "to take entire charge of boating matters." This will be more easily understood when it is explained that this committee had the power to choose the captain; decide on the policy under which the crew should be conducted; select the men, and direct the crew in every way, both in and out of the boat. A change so revolutionary in its character could not help materially affecting the pride of the undergraduates in their crew. To take the management of so important a department of athletics entirely out of the hands...
...seats (including the central block, O, between the old Pudding building and the Hospital, and about 100 seats in another block) had never been put on public sale, but were taken out in advance, being, as the manager told them, "reserved for the nine." I also have it on direct authority that members of the "nine" are allowed but five reserved seats for each game...
Yale scored twice in the fifth by bunching hits. Dann led off with a clean hit to left. Hunt flied out to Gallivan McBride's hit to right advanced Dann a base, and both scored on two successive wild pitches by Bates. These two runs were direct gifts to Yale by the Harvard pitcher, for Stewart struck out and Walker hit an easy one to Bates...
Question: "Resolved, That the action of the minority of the House of Representatives, in preventing the passage of the bill for refunding the direct tax, was justifiable...