Word: directness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...compare Columbia's statistics with those of other American universities because the word "student" does not mean the same to all of them, the tremendous public service which Columbia performs cannot be overlooked. Before the year is over 20,000 men and women will have come under the direct, personal influence of the university. Some of them will study in the regular class-rooms in the various departments, and the rest will receive extension instruction from members of the faculty. A new feature of the work this year will be to give the thousands of the city's immigrants first...
...preventing wars elsewhere; of using our own preparedness as part of a larger plan of policing the whole world; and of preventing so far as possible the starting of a conflagration which may set us afire, however small our connection with the people who strike the match, and our direct interest in the questions that caused them to do so. To the prepara- tionists, therefore, the suggestion of a league to enforce peace ought to appeal as a means of doing on an international scale the thing they are seeking to do for the United States...
...Thames. The other entrant which had won its way to the finals was the Union Boat Club crew, composed of Harvard graduates. The former eight was coached by Robert F. Herrick '90, the latter by William Haines. A pair better fitted to work in harmony and effectively direct the University's rowing policy could not be found...
...Herrick will act as head coach and direct the general policy while Mr. Haines will be with the crews daily and give the men individual instruction in the art of handling an oar. This arrangement appears to be ideal as it combines at the same time graduate and professional training. Mr. Herrick will act as a buffer for graduate advice and criticism which he will carefully sift out and pass on to Mr. Haines. The latter will thus be free to carry out his program unhampered by "too many cooks...
Professor G. W. Pierce is director of the Laboratory, and he and Dr. E. L. Chaffee will have direct charge of the work carried on there...