Word: indirectly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...them: "Whose membership of any rowing or other athletic club was bot brought about, or does not continue, because of any mutual agreement or understanding, expressed or implied, whereby his becoming or continuing a member of such club would be of any pecuniary benefit to him whatever, direct or indirect." When we see a man devoting nearly his whole time to the oar and indulging in expensive habits, we know that he cannot keep within the letter of the amateur law, unless he has a fixed income; and if we happen to know that he has no property which yields...
...growth of a more cosmopolitan and national spirit, to observe how steadily has been the growth in numbers of students at Harvard, coming from points outside of New England, from New York, Pennsylvania and the Southern and Western states. The causes which prompt this growth are many of them indirect...
...ride" is theoretically true, but the exertions of Bismarck and others of her leading statesmen to do so, has not been such as to wholly justify the assertion. That such is the state of affairs is no doubt accounted for in part by the fact that a system of indirect political suffrage prevails, which is based upon property qualifications. Whether direct or indirect suffrage is best for that country is, and for many years has been, an absorbing question with her statesmen...
...deliverance of our colleges from the pranks which formerly broke the slumber of tutors and proctors must be ascribed in part to the indirect influence of the new athletic sports. They afford a vent to the surplus energy of youth, which formerly expended itself in muscular undertakings of a more destructive nature. There is, also, probably far less lounging in rooms during leisure hours than prevailed before the in-door gymnastics and the exciting field sports came into fashion. The effect on the health of the students, it cannot be doubted, has been extremely beneficial. Games in the open...
Both the opponents and upholders of college sports, who have expressed their views in the public press, have often proved themselves quite ignorant of the inside workings, of the results, direct and indirect, of the tendencies and even the true aims, of college athletics. Both sides, says a prominent Princeton senior, in an able article published in the initial number of The Student and Statesman, assume a false premise, viz., that the inter-collegiate contests affect but a small number of men. It is time that those who understand from daily experience the actual working of the whole system, should...