Word: direction
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cast his ballot. The non-voter in the outside world is being recognized more each day as an undesirable citizen and a liability to the community in which he lives. The status of the non-voter in the college is essentially the same. His lack of loyalty is a direct injury to the welfare of his class and also to himself. In the former case, a selfish apathy inhibits the mental effort necessary to the casting of an intelligent vote for the nominees of his class; in the latter he is forming a habit which will eventually depreciate...
This continuing exodus of professors is in direct contrast to the large and growing number of students back in College this term. It is a disappointment to the latter to find so many desirable courses, once taught by professors, given by men of lower rank and less experience due to the absence of the former. After the free and willing sacrifices which all connected with the University have made during the war surely it cannot be unreasonably selfish to regard the continued depletion of the faculty as the over doing of a good thing. Some consideration should be given...
...duties of the Regent are those of a University Officer exercising a general supervision over the conduct and welfare of the students, his particular duty being to direct the proctors who reside in University buildings or in buildings to which the superintendence of the University extends. The chief purposes of this office are to relieve the work of the Dean's Office and to endeavor to develop the office of proctor into one of closer relationship with those undergraduates with whom the proctor should come in contact...
...colleges: "I am not opposed to intercollegiate athletics; I have yet to find a reason for abolishing them; but the system needs many changes. I am in sympathy with the resolutions passed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the Christmas recess, recommending that University authorities take more direct responsibility for athletics; that physical training and athletic sport be regarded as an important part of education, supervised, as other parts of education are supervised, by a department of instruction. In these matters, I believe, some Western colleges are nearer right than...
...Waters, Physical Director of the Cambridge Y. M. C. A., will take charge of the swimming; Coach Sam Anderson will direct the wrestling squad; and Coach Foley will give instruction in boxing. The schedule will be so arranged that men may have instruction in each of these sports, and in addition may join the class in general gymnasium work...