Word: directive
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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FURNITURE. Chamber, Parlor, Library, Dining Room and Hall furniture, from an immense stock, is sold direct from the manufactory, at PAINE'S, 48 Canal and 141 Friend streets, opposite Boston & Maine depot, Boston...
...programme of last Saturday's exhibition was noticeable for the variety of interest afforded by the numerous events. Although a direct contest, like sparring or fencing, is bound to elicit more enthusiastic attention than most other events, yet no complaint could be made on that score for Saturday's meeting, despite the absence of either of these events. That Harvard can bring out so large a number of contestants with a programme so varied, is yet another proof of the popularity of general athletics among her students. After such a series of successes as these three meetings, the college...
...refining influence on the beatic youths, whom by daily converse they keep from the sins that would condemn them to the eternal torments of the wicked, &c., &c., - the sermon, we say, so teems with such sentimental platitudes that we feel a strong desire to respond in more direct language. The literature, says the Edinburgh Review, that issues from a college is one of the surest exponents of its character and inner life. Had the good, charitable man who was so ready to condemn Harvard thought of this, and had he ever taken the trouble to glance at some college...
...more important when we consider how little has been done to replace these recent losses. Although the junior professors and instructors are in general competent and thorough in their routine work of instruction, there is an evident need of a presiding authority in several cases who shall direct and advance the work and methods used. Last year several conspicuous additions were made to the classical department, and the example set in this respect might be profitably followed in the other departments where there is perhaps a more urgent necesity for immediate and decided action. With the death of Professor Peirce...
...American school at Athens is the direct offspring of the Archaeological Institute of America; the Archaeological Institute of America itself was in the first place a child of Harvard; therefore, the relations of the three are of the most intimate nature. The Archaeological Institute was organized in 1879 with Charles Eliot Norton as president, and with Prof. Goodwin and Alexander Agassiz on the board of directors. Since its organization its work has grown to be of national importance. The two most important results of its labors hitherto have been the well-known explorations carried on recently in Mexico...