Word: indirectness
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...stimulate in them the reading habit. The work of tutors will be entirely independent of the conduct of courses, and the tutors as such will have no control over the work or the grades of any student in any college course. Their assistance will naturally be of indirect benefit to the student in his work in individual courses, but their main function will be to help the student and guide him in the kind of reading and study which will be most useful toward his general progress in this Division. The attitude of the tutor will be that...
...Nichols said it was hard to deal directly with summer baseball on account of the indirect way in which a player often received his recompense. He mentioned instances of a boy jumping over a bat for a bet of $50 with the manager of a baseball team, or of tending a soda fountain at a summer hotel for half an hour a day at $50 a week. He could see no objections to a bona fide resident playing with a summer nine provided he received no compensation either direct or indirect...
...Knowles resulted in Yale's defeat. After this defeat the Yale team took a distinct brace and showed in the game against Brown that they still had a powerful attack and excellent individual players in spite of the slump of the week previous. Both the touchdowns came as an indirect result of Wilson's brilliant return of punts, while both he and Dunn showed themselves to be consistent ground gainers...
Last year several of the larger colleges made a distinct effort to prevent "yapping" on the baseball field, and achieved considerable success; but umpires still fall to enforce the rules which limit the remarks of players; and student players, who get their training directly and indirect from professional players, are constantly tempted to do what they know to be done-- and done without censure--by the heroes of the American and National Leagues. We like to belive that recent Harvard teams, though by no means perfect, have honestly tried to resist such temptations and to play a clean game
...Both teams displayed a stubborn defensive power which the unvaried line-plunging tactics of the opposing eleven could not penetrate. The winning points were scored in the last five minutes of play as the result of two goals from placement by Brown, each goal being the indirect result of a West Point fumble...