Word: directness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Club organized last evening at a meeting attended by about 70 members. Maurice Suravitz '13 was the first speaker. He dealt with the advantages of debating as compared with those of athletics. Judge A. P. Stone '93 then spoke pointing out the method used at Harvard, that of being direct, and carefully distinguishing between debating and declaiming...
During this year the Speakers' Club has planned, in continuance of the policy inaugurated two years ago and carried out successfully last spring, to conduct several open meetings for the discussion of University and National problems. The club thus intends to be of direct service to the University. At these open meetings, coming at regular intervals, men particularly interested in the topic under consideration will be invited to lead the discussion. The first of these meetings will be held in the near future and the subject will be the "Political Situation...
Quite a different variety of game is apparently being developed at Princeton, where, unlike most of the other larger universities, no direct return has been made to the line-plunging game of former years. This is largely due to the fact that the backs are all fast, clever dodgers, who show up to the greatest advantage in an open field. A shifting new-style variety of play can therefore be expected, abundant proof of which was given both in last Saturday's game and by the fact that all practice throughout the season will be held in secret...
Wright & Ditson, in Harvard square, and the Co-operative Branch will receive direct reports from the world's championship baseball series game to be played in New York today. The plan is to be continued throughout the series...
...series of fortnightly meetings tomorrow evening in Phillips Brooks House at 7.30 o'clock. Dean E. F. Gay of the Graduate School of Business Administration will speak. The society plans during the year to conduct Bible classes, to give receptions at intervals to graduate students, and to direct the social service work of the graduates. Every meeting will be addressed by a member of the Faculty, or by some prominent man outside of the University...