Word: direction
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...body of students for the abolition of "compulsory worship." It has generally been assumed that nothing could be accomplished by making such an appeal. The recent removal of restrictions at Harvard, as the result of repeated petitions signed by four fifths of the undergraduates, has served, however, to direct anew the attention of students in New Haven to the compulsory system prevailing at Yale and to show them what may be done by continued agitation. Yale students who are professing Christians, recently in the college press have opposed "compulsory worship...
Books were placed horizontally on the shelves, not perpendicularly as with us. There is no certain evidence of the existence of catalogues. The direct descendants from these ancient libraries can be traced from the time of the Empire to the thirteenth century...
...crude. It seems to prove that the writer's strength lies in prose. The first three lines are harsh, and "need the file." The thought, again, is obscure, and the lines often labor. "The Last of the Adventures," by Mr. Bruce, is not a powerful effort. It is direct, admirably written and picturesque, but it is disconnected. There is lacking something of that "swing" so peculiar to the writer's better work. A translation of the second epode of Horace, by Mr. Isham, which received a Sargent prize, is in many respects a masterpiece of direct, literal translation. But much...
...Woodman, vice-president; Mr. Lund, secretary; and Mr. Amory, treasurer. Messrs. Adams, Crocker and Wood will captain the crew, nine and eleven for he coming year. Messrs. Amory, Leighton and Wood were elected to the Anniversary Committee, and Messrs. Adams, Appleton and Porter were elected marshals. A motion to direct the committee to oppose the project of a championship foot-ball game on undergraduate's day, was defeated. A motion to the effect that '88 disapproved of the election of the Conference Committee was defeated by a small majority; and a motion to the effect "That the class...
Under such circumstances as these, how can politics or the public service attract young men of education and ability who must earn their living, and who feel compelled to place their talents in the most remunerative market? Harvard provides direct preparation for all those callings for which a great university can prepare its young men. But, as I have said, direct preparation for political life is scarcely possible within the college walls. Many studies which relate thereto, and which are necessary parts of a statesman's education, can be, and are assiduously pursued, and I doubt not that you would...