Word: directed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...thus see a direct opposition of interests between the men who row for their own pleasure in the clubs, and the crew on which depends the honor of the University in boating. Now I wish to propose a plan for a University boat-club, which shall make the interests of all common, and which shall be a boat-club in fact as well as in name, giving every member the opportunity of rowing. This plan could not be carried into effect immediately, but as soon as the clubs have bought and paid for the boats they now hire...
...time of our withdrawal from the Association, has in no wise declined, and is seeking to so express itself as to best improve our chances of success. A few words as to our present condition, and the quarter in which we most need outside help, may serve to direct this interest where it will do the most good...
...spite of the decline of interest in boating, we see a ray of light breaking on the horizon. The letters we publish this week upon the subject of boating show that there is somewhere an interest in rowing. To turn this dawning spirit in the right direction, to so direct it that it may show us the way to victory, is what we should now give our attention to. That this desirable object may be attained we invite every one to express his view, and we promise to give all sides a fair hearing. Those who disagree with the conclusions...
...long as you chose to direct...
...helplessly allow to fall asunder? Are they those whose active minds, unsullied by the thoughts and traditions, which the Old World has left behind as eternal monuments of its infamy, find in themselves the germs of truth, disregard the plaints of the timorous observer of the past, and proudly direct the course of the ship of state in the direction in which their intellect tells them that it should go? Are they those whose fortune does not permit them to clothe their backs with the latest abomination of that world-old tyrant, Fashion? or to shake their sides with beastly...