Word: indirectness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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 is to reduce the proportions of athletics by cutting off all freshman contests. The opportunity for pushing such a plan is unexpectedly offered...
...subjects for the Toppan Prize are: Local government in England in 1600; separation of Church and State in the United States; how far is the extension of democracy modifying methods of direct and indirect taxation...
...Indirect taxes are preferable to an Income Tax in the U. S. - (a) Income Tax unsuited for U. S. - (1) Poor Civil Service: J. A. Hill in Quarterly Journal of Economics, VIII, 92 (Oct. 1893). - (2) Unstable incomes. - (b) National government should not interfere in the domain of State and Municipal taxation: Public Opinion...
...people wish the reform. (b) The people are opposed to indirect elections, as shown by our experience with presidential electors...
Scientific training is of ethical value in some indirect way, but of greatest value in the direct way that it teaches us to look at things in an objective way, that is, to eliminate our personal equation. This is of great importance in science, but of even more and of far greater difficulty in the domain of conduct, for this latter is the study of our relations with our fellow men. In the domain of conduct we must, not as in science, have first ideas and conform to them acts and facts. Such ideas are meant as those instinctive...