Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason we have always used a direct appeal to students is that we feel it is the best way to interest and inform them of the work of a tuberculosis association, for we realize that college students represent the future leaders of their respective communities...
...this led the Alumni Bulletin to cite Harvard, in 1912, as a "good example of the direct service a University can do to the country by intelligent foresight and readiness to open up new fields of study." The Alumni Bulletin was speaking somewhat before the fact. In 1925, Baker, after having spent more than ten years in an attempt to persuade the University to permit him to solicit funds for a decent theatre, slipped quietly away to Yale, in what Morison calls the greatest victory of Yale over Harvard in the twentieth century. Two years later the word was revealed...
Cautiously Vag started to cross Massachusetts Avenue, then with an air of bravado, he dodged a taxi. A flake of snow hit, him in the eye. Direct hit, he said to himself, and though his eye watered he smiled expansively at nobody and continued across the Yard. Where was he walking to! Didn't he have to see someone at University Hall, or was it Lehman! Well, lot the big boys wait. He was taking a walk to think things over, to sum things up. The happiest days of his life, and perhaps in a way the least useful, that...
...elections, which will take place on Thursday and Friday of next week, will pick a 15-man permanent committee to direct the affairs of the class after graduation. The three men who draw the most votes will be designated as class marshals, and the top man among them will represent his class as first marshal...
Malcolm H. Holmes '28 will conduct the Band of 110 players for the start and finish of the program. G. Wallsce Woodworth '24 will direct the Choral Society in an interlude of song...