Word: directness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...section of the Dorchester Tunnel extending from Park street in the Cambridge Subway to Washington Station in the Dorchester tunnel between Hawley and Arch streets, will be opened for public travel Sunday. Cambridge subway trains will run between Washington street and Harvard square and will not only provide direct service to Washington street for Cambridge subway passengers, but will connect the Cambridge subway and the Tremont street subway by transfer with elevated trains in both directions in the Washington street tunnel, and with the surface car service easterly on Summer street to the South Station...
...Nymph," we find a vagrant memory fixed in a present mood. The lines, except the second, are musical; Mr. Clark has secured his effect with rare economy of effort. The two sonnets by Mr. Norris, "An Old Story," and "Winter Sunrise," dealing with more clearly defined subjects, show more direct treatment. In form, they are slightly irregular, and suffer from a jerkiness due to the large proportion of end-stopped lines. But the description is good; and Mr. Norris is particularly felicitous in his closing lines...
...some topic in municipal government, to be chosen by the council of the National Municipal League. The topic for this year is "A Critical Study of the Sources of Municipal Revenue." The competition is open to undergraduates of any college or university in the United States which offers direct instruction in municipal government...
...meeting of the executive committee Tuesday, P. L. Sayre '16 and F. T. Smith '15 will urge the adoption of such a plan of direct student action so that the majority in each class may determine whether beer or other intoxicating liquors shall be served at smokers, class dinners, and other social gatherings...
...College. The Scholarship Service Bureau aims to make itself useful to men who are doing poorly in their studies, but who have some seriousness and are able to profit by assistance. Under the present system, the man who fails to learn by experience how to study effectively receives no direct guidance or aid; and he soon finds himself on probation, fast sinking to the danger level...