Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...request of Dean Bender that the Council is undertaking the project of sampling College opinion on the subject. In its investigation it will be guided by three basic questions: (1) Does the grade system perform a necessary educational function? (2) What effect on the student's work in a course does the preparation for hour exams and mid-term papers have and (3) what, if any, is the simplest, most inexpensive grading system...
...dominant tone is one of moderation. David Niven is moderately crotchety as the bishop; Grant is moderately supernatural as Dudley; Loretta Young registers a variety of moderate emotions as the wife; and Monty Wooley is only moderately Monty Wooley as an old professor. And the total effect, despite the unhesitant acceptance of "just Dudley" and his miracles, is moderately good. As the redhead decided, summoning all her critical forces into play, "I liked...
...awkwardness and obscurity of much of its style, the detailed technical discussions of which it is full, the abstractness of many of its issues, will prevent "Process and Reality" from over directly affecting more than a small number of industrious and independent thinkers. But its indirect effect has been and will continue to be enormous, it should forever remain, a landmark in the history of the intellect, a perpetual source of fundamental ideas, a monument in metaphysics, cosmology and theology, a watershed separating off twentieth century from nineteenth century thought...
...each is "prehended," taken account of and thus preserved, by all that comes thereafter. Each of us is naught but a series of somewhat closely related actual occasions. No one of us is permanent, no one of us is duplicatable, no one of us is forever without effect on everything there will be. We are internally richer, more intense than other beings perhaps and occasionally we may have a flicker of a consciousness denied to others, but in principle we are like all other beings. Like all else we are focal points unifying the cosmos in a fresh and original...
...failure of the Student Council Food Saving plan to go into effect throws a discouraging light on the character of our college community. The plan demanded a sacrifice rom us which is absurdly small when compared with the sacrifices of the people who were to benefit from it, or when measured against the importance of the national food saving program...