Word: affected
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...height. Nevertheless wages were very low and consequently population was diminished. Public prosperity does not always bring about an increase of population. It is Science which has brought about changes in the condition of nations, and it seems probable that Science will continue its influences. The surest way to affect wages is to increase products faster than population, so that individual effort may receive a higher compensation...
...editorial on the same theme supports Mr. Forbes's argument, quoting in defence President Roosevelt's somewhat illogical utterance in his recent speech in the Union, and attempting a reply to Professor Francke's criticism. But a discussion of the differences between German and American universities does not affect Professor Francke's main point, that President Roosevelt was not justified in assuming that the intercollegiate element in athletics is essential to the achieving of those results in manliness, courage, and physical fitness, the desirability which no one denies...
...introducing the speaker Professor Wendell '77 gave a short outline of M. d'Avenel's career as an economist, concluding with the statement that he is the first lecturer to set forth the great economic changes which affect France today...
...changes, and have no points in common with them. The nineteenth century, in which social equality has attained to a greater extent than ever before, has witnessed the birth of great inequality in fortunes. Upon the fortunes of the laboring classes, the progress of a country has really no affect, as is seen in certain periods of French history, especially in the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries...
...hardest things for a man is to preserve his balance when demands are made upon him. Ask yourself what Harvard College is. It is the result of self-sacrifice for the past 270 years. I particularly want you to remember how your life here is going to affect those at home. All that Harvard University demands of a student is that he be a gentleman in the broadest sense and faithfully perform his College duties...