Word: directness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...your confidence and sympathy. Follow the leading of your own enlightened conscience by letting no cumulative force of example or persuasio turn you one hair's breadth from what you regard as your duty; by making your own way through college a right line, a straight line in the direct way from earth to heaven. Make your uttered profession whenever your silence would mean assent or indifference. Show your colors and stand by them but do not parade them out of season. Do nothing for effect; always act your Christian self. Shun religious cliques...
...five remaining sketches and descriptions, "Into the Dark" and "The Lighthouse of Villefranche" seem to us to be the best. The former exhibits an energy and vividness in direct contrast with its author's other sketch in the number, "Old Sam," being as it is a portrayal of the thoughts and sufferings of a disappointed lover about to commit suicide. "The Lighthouse of Villefanche" has a strength of diction which is well-suited to the dramatic scenes which the sketch portrays...
...years ago, when the tennis league was first organized. The leading players in college at that time found that if Harvard intended to make a good showing in tennis, she must adopt in this, as in other sports, some organized system of development. The tennis league was the direct outgrowth of this idea. What good it has accomplished cannot of course be measured; but it is very certain that the number of good tennis players at Harvard is greater than it has ever been before, and is still on the increase. From this large number of good players, rather than...
...last year of not having its support assured beforehand. We understand that already enough funds have been secured to warrant the carrying on of the arrangements. To ensure success, however, the association will need far more generous support from the college. The work of the Cycling Association is a direct aid in the development of our material for the track athletic games with Yale and the other colleges. If our college recognized this fact more plainly, we should not now have to urge its more loyal support to the association...
Those instructors who have a general oversight of the Evans Library make direct charges that men are stealing books from the library. The idea may seem hardly credible, yet the fact is that the books are disappearing. Harvard students are given more privileges and advantages in the use of the libraries than any other set of men we know of. It is very sure that the authorities will deprive us of these privileges, if student sentiment is not strong enough to prevent wholesale stealing of the books...