Word: direction
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Last night's debate was a fair contest, and resulted in a fair but close victory for Yale. Taken simply as a debate, it was the best ever held in the Yale-Harvard series. It was direct all the way through, it never hung on the wording of the question, and it was not marred by any slip of either side. Another characteristic was the intense interest aroused by every speaker and maintained throughout the debate by the exact knowledge of the subject shown on both teams, the perfect form of presentation of Harvard, and the convincing earnestness of Yale...
Physical Colloquium. Papers: Series Spectra. Mr. E. H. Colpitts.- Transformation of Alternating Currents into Direct Currents. Professor Trowbridge. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
Annexation would extend our frontier to a defencelss outpost, sufficently near the South Sea Islands for direct attack upon either of our positions...
...Yale man who has without variation supported Harvard in preference to all other colleges, his own alone excepted, and who has cheered its athletes upon all such occasions, I feel a right to direct your attention to your own lack of generosity and to express the hope that that sentiment is not the Harvard sentiment but only the immature sentiment of the writer. I do not care to discuss the various contests which certainly do not show it to be a disgrace for Harvard to have been tied by Yale, nor do I presume to criticise your judgment that...
...idea expressed by the writer, that both the action taken and the comment thereon were direct cuts at the dignity of Yale University, and intended to belittle the record of this year's Yale team, is so utterly foreign to the spirit in which the H's were removed and the editorials written, that we find it hard to believe that such a misconception can have obtained general foothold in New Haven. Nothing could be further from our intention than to condemn the team for falling to win. Without any reference whatever to the result of either game...