Word: indirectly
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Weather obliged a temporary postponement of the fall games at the Field, the entries for which are very numerous. The project of practically completing the Field, by adding suitable approaches, is being considered, and has received an indirect encouragement by the recent removal by fire, of an adjacent soap factory, a great source of discomfort. The Athletic Association will probably hold several more paper-chases before the close of the season. The New Haven Golf Club has met with great success and college men form a large proportion of its membership nearly one hundred being enrolled. The centenary of Keats...
...rooms, but water will be supplied to the entries on the first and third floors in each section. The building will be absolutely fire-proof, perfectly ventilated, and lighted by gas. Heat will be supplied from the central station, whether by the hot water system or the indirect radiation of steam, is not yet decided. There will also be an open fireplace in each study...
...Cuba to independence is for the moral interest of the U. S.- (a) The Cuban cause is just.- (1) The Spanish administration of Cuba has always been selfish and tyrannical. Forum, xx. 54 sq. Ballou 305 sq.- (a) Denial of representation.- (b) Oppressive direct and indirect taxation.- (c) Spanish control of revenues.- (d) Greed and corruption of officials.- (e) Espionage.- (f) Censorship of press.- (g) Barbarities in suppressing rebellions.- (2) Spain has broken faith with Cuba.- (a) Non-fulfillment of promises made to insurgents in 1878: Forum...
Above all other poetry, the Divine Comedy is the record of a lofty character and a manly earnestness of purpose. Dante did not fail in the indirect accomplishment of his attempt to lead men to righteousness. In every generation men have listened to his words and been helped by them. If we read the poem simply for the sake of the poetry, we find in it a pleasure, which only the words of the great poet can give us. The reader of the poem becomes its lover. Poetry is the garb which wisdom has chosen for itself, and the lover...
...defiance of any rules, however stringent. Such play can only be discouraged by absolute intolerance on the part of players and spectators alike. In the intensity of the desire to win and in the fierce excitement of a game, there is often tolerated a great deal that is indirect violation of the spirit of gentlemanly sport. When the whole attention is directed to the end the means which attain it are often by that very fact thought justified. This should not be so. The true sportsmanlike spirit, so often referred to yet so often forgotten, should be present...