Word: directive
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bicycle Club announces in our columns this morning its intention of organizing a racing meeting at Beacon Park in the spring. This announcement will be read with interest by all those interested in bicycling, and it seems to us that such meetings are very desirable. Apart from the direct benefit it will do bicycling at Harvard it will remove from the Athletic Association the inconvenience of having the two-mile race and the practice for it on the track at Jarvis. We understand that arrangements have been made so that those entering the races can practice at Beacon Park...
...connection with those of subsequent years. In 1808, after the embargo, manufacturers, in the sense that we understand them, began, and the textile fabrics and other goods of that class were now manufactured in factories rather than in household industries. In the tariff act of 1816 came a more direct application of the spirit of protection. Duties still remained moderate, ranging from seven and one-half to thirty per cent. On cotton and woollen goods a duty of twenty-five per cent. was laid, designedly a protective duty, but intended to be only temporary. This tariff was the most scientifically...
...three sets of arguers are right, though our sympathies go with the last, and a good deal of respect with the first; but we want to point out a fact or two. One is that the people who, of all others, seek efficiency most, and that often at the direct cost of culture, the Scotch, have long since made up their minds upon the subject. They do not want to be soft-mannered men, or refined men, or refined men, or reflective men, but to be efficient men; yet they hold university training a help, and not a drawback...
...their changed status under the laws of the college, is noted. The passage of most interest in the report perhaps is concerning the recent move toward the regulation of college athletics. Through the appointment of a standing committee of three the faculty has for the first time a direct responsibility for the character and extent of our athletics. This has resulted in a set of regulations by this committee. "The influence of the committee has been successfully used to reduce the number of match games of ball and to confine them to Saturdays...
...technical terms prevails. Poker, I presume, however, is an American game, and, in spite of the patriotic efforts of Minister Schenck, is not yet received with favor in England. "The game in which this misuse of terms is most rampant, and to which I especially desire to direct attention," the writer concludes, "is lawn tennis. Players and manufacturers call 'rackets' 'bats.' Cricket is played with a bat, lawn tennis with a racket. 'Strokes' are often called 'points' and 'aces;' a 'service' is called a 'serve;' a 'rest' is known as a 'rally;' the 'sides' (of the net) become 'ends...