Word: directous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...share of the entrance fees or admission money; or who shall have taught or engaged in any athletic exercise or sport as a means of livelihood; or who shall at any time have received for taking part in any athletic sport or contest any pecuniary gain or emolument whatever, direct or indirect, with the single exception that he may have received from the college organization, or from any permanent amateur association of which he was at the time a member, the amount by which the expenses necessarily incurred by him in representing his organization in athletic contests exceeded his ordinary...
John G. Clarkson, pitcher of the Cleveland league team, arrived at New Haven last Wednesday. He will spend March coaching the candidates for the Yale nine. This is the first time a national league player has coached the Yale team in eight years. Clarkson will direct the work of the players in the cage, especially the pitchers, and the diamond practice and team work of the candidates until the departure of the team on its Easter trip...
Once made poet laureate, Dryden's career as dramatist closes and he now turns to satire. In satire his genius lay, and in his productions of this kind we have fit members of the great body of English literature. His language was direct, emphatic, incisive, - there was an impetuous flow about his verses, every line struck a blow, every epithet had its significance, every simile its effect. Dryden's satire was both glorious and terrible...
...problem of justification by faith is to make a man right who is wrong. We have seen that a man cannot make himself right by a direct aim at right. The law of indirectness forces him to use power outside of himself and these powers he must find in some great personality From the example and relationship of this personality he can fill his soul with great aims, high aspirations and can become the embodiment of a great purpose with absolutely no room left for considation of self...
...Prospect Union is growing more important every year; and not only are the members of the Union glad of the instruction when it is given, but they ask for it beforehand. The call for instructors, printed in the CRIMSON earlier in the year, was the result of a direct request for instruction in those several subjects. The rooms of the Union are kept in pretty constant use during the evening, three classes often being carried on during the same hour. The evening is divided up into three hours from 7 till 10, and on every day in the week, except...