Word: directness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Field, but it is far more convenient than the Yale training quarters. The Varsity Club should mean a bright future for Harvard athletics. The athletes were formerly isolated and those who did not belong to social clubs had little chance for fellowship. This was a great evil and the direct benefits were apparent when the teams moved into their rooms on Holyoke street. There was then an opportunity for closer relations between the players and also between the players and coaches. In closing, Coach Haughton paid a great tribute to Captain Burr...
...Yale Alumni Weekly announces two interesting changes in the playing policy of the Yale Baseball team this year. Only the captain and catcher of the nine will be permitted to talk while the team is playing in the field, and the coach will not direct the men when they are at bat or on the bases...
...features, such as the presidential primaries, the initiative, referendum, and recall, and preferential voting has been placed on exhibition at the Bureau of Municipal Research in Wadsworth House. The collection comprises some very interesting documents, including the 14-foot ballot used in the recent New York primaries, the Seattle direct legislation ballot, and the preferential ballot used in Spokane...
...balances and provided a system of selection of officials which shows their distrust of the people. The elaborate processes by which officials were chosen and the survival of parties after their purpose had been accomplished, these together with the spoils system caused the growth of boss rule. The direct primary, the referendum, the recall and the initiative are all successive steps in eliminating the boss from politics and bringing the government under direct control of the people. Likewise the commission form of city government does away with machinery and increases efficiency without lessening popular control over governmental machinery...
...engineer, then, has no limit to the possibilities of his profession. There are many positions to be filled, many directions to which inventive genius may be directed. The successful aspirant must possess certain rare qualities. He must have perfect industrial training, must be competent to conceive and plan, organize and direct, must have creative ability and sound reasoning faculties. He must be acquainted with business methods, with human nature. Faraday said: "It requires twenty years to make a man in the physical sciences." The young engineer must have infinite optimism and hope. Yet the result more than repays this delay...