Word: directness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Oxford street. He was taken ill just a week ago with a cold and his strength rapidly failed him. It was the sudden weakening rather than the violence of the disease which hastened his death. His bronchial tubes were affected and it was probably bronchitis which was the direct cause of his decease...
...Thwaits, the latter of whom took the place of P. G. Parsons, met two from the Yale Union in debate at Newport, on the invitation and under the auspices of the Unity Club. The question debated was: "Resolved, that United States Senators should be elected by the direct vote of the people." The Yale speakers were L. A. Welles, who was last year president of the Yale Union, and W. E. Thoms, who has represented Yale on the regular Harvard-Yale debates. This was in no sense a competitive debate between the two universities. These two members of the Wendell...
...Arthur Gilman, at present secretary of the Society and chairman of the Students' Committee respectively, is due the great credit of being the originators of the plan for the education of women by professors of Harvard College. It was their desire to make no direct advances to the corporation of the college, so that the responsibility of the experiment should rest only upon the persons interested in it; yet as the instruction was to be furnished by Harvard professors, it was evident that no action ought to be taken without consultation with the college authorities. Accordingly, having matured their plans...
...will now be within the pale of the University two colleges, Harvard College and Radcliffe College; here we have a suggestion of Oxford and Cambridge which will touch the pride of those students who look with admiration on the great English universities. This action of the overseers is a direct compliment to the cause of the higher education of women and a direct compliment also to this particular institution. A formal acknowledgement from Harvard University of the value and importance of the work of the Harvard Annex must mean everything to the Annex; it must contribute to its success...
...Lecture Studies are intended to stimulate and direct reading and studying along the lines of literature, history, and science. The lectures are accompanied by printed outlines which indicate the parallel study to be carried on by the students at home. Weekly exercises are prepared outside of the lectures and afford subject for discussion in the lecture room. Certificates are given to students who complete work in this department, according to the number of courses taken...