Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recession's main effect on Harvard so far has been to make it harder for both individual departments and the University as a whole to raise money. Last year Harvard was lucky enough to attract about the same volume of gifts as it did the year before, but in the face of the uncertain economic future, the University discovered an increasing reluctance among its donors to sign pledges for future gifts. As a result, many of last year's gifts were of but one term's duration...
...main sources of college and university income, of course, are tuition and other students fees, and today across the country these are at their peak. However, the higher rates aren't having their full effect in narrowing the cost-income gap because enrollments are falling. In Harvard's case the enrollment dip simply reflects the University's decision two years ago to slash war-swollen figures. Many other colleges, however, would like to continue with a bigger students body but can't because fewer and fewer men today have enough money to pay the expensive bill...
...maintenance department is where Curley employs the mobs who make up his large following. For the numerous small jobs that the maintenance crews do, the payroll is enormously high. the opposition candidates claim that stream-lining this department can materially effect the city's bulget...
Charles Munch, who is capable of the most energetic gymnastics during the forte passages and the most sulxlued style of conducting during the piano parts to draw out the orchestra, used his ability to the utmost. The effect was such that Ravel's work sounded like a new and wonderful piece being performed for the first time...
...performance was concerned if not musical excellence was probably Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe Suite. Here both the orchestra and the conductor were in their element. A completely impressionistic work such as this requires deep understanding, and the orchestra, which has been seated differently to create a different tonal effect, certainly gave it that...