Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...College population increased the administration was not entirely ignorant of the effect of the method it was using, and the term paper, tutorial, honors theses, and general examinations were given a new importance as compensating factors. These four things are on the right track, but they have their drawbacks. The trouble with the term paper or half-term paper is that: 1) if it is short, the student can do it in several days or a week and the rest of the time go on about his business; 2) if it is long, the student is forced to specialize...
Another aspect of the problem of Harvard's teaching methods that cannot be ignored is the social organization of the College and its effect on the individual. This is closely related to the educational method, as I shall try to point out in my conclusion. The CRIMSON has printed a series of editorials this year stating the facts of the social organization, or rather lack of organization, in the College. The picture those articles gives is of extreme heterogeneity and individualism compensated by attachment to intense little cliques either in clubs, activities, or informal groups. Having lived in the College...
...effect, make Panama a satellite of Colombia...
...martial rather than marital terms when he told Parliament that spring: "It involves nothing less than a common plan [for] the economic defense of the Western Hemisphere." But no matter how much the statesmen of each country might play it down for political expediency, the fact was inescapable: in effect, Canada had become an economic 49th state...
...Would have no serious effect on U.S. economy...