Word: directly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...direct result of a spirit like this, that after thirty odd years of football, the wall of the Trophy Room is plastered with only four footballs, and that the Harvard crew has trailed persistently behind the Yale eight at New London...
President G. G. Smith favored most strongly this amendment, and in a printed slip distributed the day before the meeting urged its adoption. He pointed out that it is the duty of the Board of Directors to appoint employees, fix their pay, and criticise and direct their work; and that for any employee to have a part in his own appointment, in the fixing of his own pay, and in the criticism and direction of his own work, must often make free discussion of such questions by the Board impossible, and even an unbiased vote by no means easy...
...strangers he gave the impression of a certain abruptness of manner, but those who knew him well learned that this was in appearance only, and that his habit of blunt, direct speech was really the expression of a simple, earnest, democratic nature, scorning all pretense of super-refinement and anxious to meet all upon the terms of absolute equality. He combined the instinct of the true scholar with a wonderful breadth of sympathies and a fellow feeling...
...response to an appeal from President Roosevelt in the public press and to direct appeals from Harvard men and other foreign residents in Japan, the Harvard Mission has undertaken to raise by general subscription in the University a substantial sum of money toward the fund for relieving the famine in the north of Japan...
...training of the chorus and of the solo singers will be under the direction of Mr. B. G. Willard, Instructor in Public Speaking. The development of the voices of the actors will be under the direction of Mr. Willard and Mr. George Riddle '74, who assisted in the production of "Oedipus" in 1881. Mr. A. S. Hills '00, Instructor in Public Speaking will direct the dramatic action of the players...