Word: directive
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...last analysis, all of them have been imbued with a most generous desire to spread farther the influence of the College and make its field of usefulness broader. Though animated by the same purpose, they have sought their end in different ways. Some have founded scholarships, some have given direct aid, and some have exerted their influence towards giving high school men an idea of the nature and the advantages of Harvard. The value of this national movement cannot be overestimated, and it is one of the greatest tributes that the graduates can pay to the College...
...undergraduate hallucination which assumes an entire absence of any connection between examination grades and post-collegiate success." The man who takes the view that studies are all that are worth while at College is doubtless narrow-minded, but, on the other hand, the man who fails to recognize the direct relation of studies to general capacity and effectiveness in after life is no less short-sighted...
...Joel Chandler Harris for adding a unique page to English literature. Negro faithfulness cannot be overrated. In the old days the southerners entrusted the protection of their wives, mothers, sweethearts and daughters to negroes. Today the newspapers are filled with accounts of their atrocious crimes. This is the direct result of taking them from the plow and setting them at the spelling book. Mr. Booker Washington's level-headed work in coaxing them back to manual labor is praiseworthy in the extreme. Granting the negro his freedom instantaneously was a mistake, but above all the mistake of granting them...
Francis Hardon Burr '09, of Chestnut Hill, died in the Des Brisay hospital yesterday morning at 5.30 o'clock. He was taken ill with typhoid fever on October 3, and although he rallied several times, the disease was the direct cause of his death...
...bring before the governing bodies of the University expression of undergraduate opinion on subjects pertaining to the University, and to co-operate with the Athletic Committee in eradicating any evils in the conduct of athletics. The attainment of this purpose is to be effected in part by direct jurisdiction over individual students, and in part by creating the general sentiment that it is a question of individual and college honor to maintain a strict attention to scholastic duties...