Word: directness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most helpful events of the year to the institution has been the completion of the line of electric cars direct from Harvard Square to Roxbury, which gives very good connections between Cambridge and Jamaica Plain. One of the great drawbacks in past years to the Bussey Institution has been its distance from Cambridge and the inconvenience of getting from one place to the other. With this new line of cars, however, this difficulty has been somewhat remedied and it is now possible for students from the Bussey School to come over to Cambridge and take courses in Geology, Engineering...
...Corporation could use the income of additional endowments to the amount of ten millions of dollars for the satisfaction of none but well-known and urgent wants." It seems a direct reproach to the many rich Harvard graduates, of which Harvard has more probably than any other university in the land, that it should suffer so severely for the means to carry out the plans so wisely and broadly conceived to make it a complete university, doing the most that it is capable of in the field of education...
Question: "Resolved, That the election of United States Senators should be by direct popular vote...
Question: "Resolved, That the election of United States Senators should be by direct popular vote...
...proposed to have the regatta under the direct control of a Board of Stewards which shall represent the interests of the collegiate and amateur athletic club crews of the United States...