Word: direction
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...glance at the programme of the exhibition to-day, in benefit of the Boat Club, convinces us that the meeting is to be a very interesting one. We believe that the direct purpose of seeing a most entertaining exhibition, and the less direct but quite as real purpose of helping to clear the Boat Club of debt should call out a large number of spectators this afternoon. The events are very numerous, and many of them will be very exciting by reason of the many entries. Moreover, the meeting is to be conducted rapidly and systematically, so that...
...Henry Cabot Lodge delivered the sixth and last one of the series of lectures on the professions. His subject was the "Uses and Responsibilities of Leisure." He spoke for forty minutes in a direct and agreeable way. His apt illustrations and stories proved very entertaining to the audience...
Prof. Trelease closed his lecture by saying that however the subject of botany was considered, either as the result of a direct order of the Creator, or that of slow growth and self development, it was worthy of the greatest attention and study of mankind...
...have "Sabbatical years," after the manner of Harvard professors. Says the Cambridge Tribune: "It seems most fitting that the means for all this should have come from a citizen of Cambridge, the success of whose great university is owing in no small measure to the self-sacrificing efforts and direct benefactions of women from the time of Lucy Downing to Mrs. Sever...
...There is an evil underlying it and supporting it that must be handled without gloves. This underlying evil is the college opinion that stamps cribbing as a thing not wrong in itself. It is the feeling that there is a difference between cheating in an examination, and telling a direct falsehood. In order to correct this state of public opinion, every student should carefully consider cribbing first, as it effects himself, and secondly, in its application to college interests. Self respect is essential to a good reputation. Can the cribber respect himself, and can be expect, that on sober thought...