Word: direction
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...estate, which was appraised at $1,700,000 to Boston University. On account of the great fire and shrinkage in value, and other unfortunate circumstances, the university will realize less than $700,000 from this magniflcent be quest. Amasa Stone gave $600,000 to Adelbert College by direct gift and by bequest. W. W. Corcoran gave $170,000 to Colombian University in money and land. Benjamin Bussey gave real estate worth $500,000 to Harvard University. Samuel Williston, William J. Walker, and Samuel A. Hitchcock gave between $100,000 and $200,000 each to Amherst College. Whitmer Phoenix gave...
...members of the Amherst Senate have passed the following resolution: "If the betting on ball games shall assume any considerable proportions the Senate will direct the Amherst Base Ball Association to withdraw from the college league...
...fact in connection with the Boylston Prize contest of this evening has occasioned considerable comment amon those intending to compete. This year, in direct opposition to the established precedent, the would-be prizemen have had no regular rehearsal of their parts. In former years, it has been the custom to lay aside, in a degree, the work of the elocution department, for the purpose of giving systematic training to those about to contest for the Boylston prizes. This year, we are told, the rehearsals of the Shakspere Club have taken so much time that this has been impossible...
...came first; then came instrumental giving freer play to the unrestricted imagination of the writer. The older music was peculiarly formal; the musician had to precede the poet in working out the shape and form of which more beautiful ideas should be presented. Bach was the first to direct these architectural forms of their stiffness, then came Haydn and Mozart, his logical successors...
Suppose the direct distribution of monies, raised by appropriation in the usual way, to manufacturers suffering from competition. The evils of this method are evident. Yet the tariff system is in effect such a distribution. The manufacturers ask Congrees for aid by tariff, and usually get it. Only the protected manufacturers can be thus dependent. Yet tendencies to dependence are unquestionably corruptive. Protection was early proposed for the "infant" industries. Only lately was it advocated for perpetuity. American manufacturers have surely progressed; but still they seem to have grown no less dependent...