Word: direction
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...following men were elected to the Student Council from 1921: Henry Hardwick Faxon of Quincy, Arthur Dean Hamilton of Milton, Thomas Crane Wales of Chestnut Hill, and George McDougall weeks, Jr., of Tacoma, Wash. The elections to the Student Council are by direct vote, the man acquiring the largest number of votes being elected...
...Carver also says, a little higher, "The only way to combat the direct reactionist (sic) is to demonstrate to him that there is more force on the side of law" etc. Meaning, one demonstrates that one is right by having over-bearing physical force on one's side. Right, naturally, is on the side of the bigger club, just as in the good old days of the cave men. Are we to have cave-man morality or the principles of peace? Mr. Carver wants both...
Never in all history was there a more direct challenge to civilization and the culture which gives civilization its living spirit than the destruction of the University of Louvain. This deed of the Germans was likened by Cardinal Mercier to the burning of the Library of Alexandria. Our generation and the countless once to come can never succeed in making it what it was; all any of us can do is to make some effort towards restoring, if only to a small degree, the glory of its past. With the appointment of an Executive Committee, whose headquarters will...
...Direct from nearly six months at the Shubert and Casino Theatres, New York, Lew Fields and "A Lonely Romeo "Company come to the Shubert Theatre (Boston), opening with a special Columbus Day matinee Monday, October...
...learned; then it is the most broadening, enlarging and stimulating place to be found. Every young man needs to acquire a habit of concentration, and a devotion to purpose, without inquiring too much whether he enjoys the process or whether he himself always perceives at the moment its direct relation to what is to come afterward. He must learn to put forth effort, because he has faith in the end to be attained, not because the means to that end suit his taste. --The World's Work...