Word: directous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Question: "Resolved, That United States senators should be elected by direct popular vote...
...present to arrange a race with the Harvard-Yale winner, provided the American crew would assume the challenge. "Bob" Cook, Yale's sagacious adviser in rowing matters, in commenting on this proposition, says, "This socalled official message from Oxford cannot be taken notice of by Yale until direct word is received from Oxford. This delegation of authority to a third party was made at a banquet in celebration of the Oxford victory. There is an enthusiastic atmosphere enveloping such occasions which is rather unfavorable to official utteranes and I should prefer to see a communication from the Oxford rowing...
Question: "Resolved, That United States senators should be elected by direct popular vote...
...varsity captain has no particular interest in the freshman team this year, would it not be for the interests of future 'varsity baseball to give the young and new players thorough instruction at the very beginning of their career in college baseball? Is not this neglect a direct injury to Harvard's baseball hopes...
...college standard, was sufficiently high. As no list of commencement parts has since been published, the '94 men of the Scientific School are denied the chance of competing for the coveted honor of taking part in the exercises on commencement day. This is an evident injustice and in direct opposition to the true Harvard spirit. The student in the Scientific School differs in only two respects from the student in the college: he has less requirements for entrance and his work is chiefly prescribed. These differences, in the opinion of the faculty, may make him unfit to compete with...