Word: directous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Homer, Shakespeare and Dante are closely bound together, though their methods of expression differed widely. Homer is plain and direct in the substance of his thought, and in the expression of it. With Shakespeare it is different. His characters have lost the simplicity of the older race. He is neither plain and direct in thought, nor in expression. Each of these poets, however, showed to us the scene of life without the interference of their own personalities. They showed us nature as reflected in a mirror. Dante is both a poet and a moralist. He is not content to give...
Question: "Resolved, That senators should be chosen by direct vote of the people...
...proposal for a Harvard-University of Pennsylvania boat race this spring has been rejected. Both Mr. Watson and Captain Bullard were against the plan and have decided to direct all their energies upon the race with Yale, as the time is very short in which to teach the crew an entirely new system of rowing...
...news of the crew from the daily papers and the college world. But news still leaked out from those who rowed on the crew until even such communications were forbidden peremptorily. Mr. Watson's ultimatum was that no news of the crew should be printed unless with his direct consent...
...freshman row at the Hyperion on Monday night, though it has not the slightest connection, in the natural order of things, with matters athletic, has again started the question of possible action by the Faculty on intercollegiate athletic contests. The direct result of the disturbance will be the abridgement of the particular privileges of the class in athletic sports, as furnishing the best means of punishment at hand, and the indirect result may be the opening up of the whole problem of collegiate athletics. The desire on the part of the so-called conservatives of the Yale Faculty...