Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is the third of a series of editorials in which the CRIMSON is undertaking an examination of undergraduate life at Harvard. The series will lay special emphasis on the effect of the academic and social organization of the College on the individual student. Early editorials in the series will attempt to reveal the situation as it exists, not to reach conclusions or to recommend changes. Later editorials will view the picture as a whole and take a definite stand on problems that have been raised...
...effect of this casual meeting is powerful. The Freshman receives, in his first personal contact with the Administration, the sharp impression that his life in Cambridge will be planned and executed entirely on his own initiative, guided by nothing but his instinct. That vague thing he knows only as "Harvard", he realizes, does not much care what courses he takes, what field he concentrates in, or what he does in his spare time, so long as he fulfills the provisions of the Rules and Regulations. He understands, furthermore, that his adviser is nothing more than a personification of those rules...
...less than it depends upon the needs of the individual student, the effect of the Freshman adviser system rests on the individual adviser. Some of the present 111 advisers have been little short of inspirational. These men have fully utilized the material provided by the Freshman Dean's office--material that includes all the information concerning the student that was available to the Board of Admissions, as well as placement grades and a confidential parental letter. These advisers do not necessarily pamper or subdue the individual. Rather do they help him to adapt his individuality to his college with...
Speaking before the newly-formed Harvard Committee for Wallace in Winthrop Junior Common Room, Ciardi also blasted the "newspaper conspiracy of silence" against Wallace. Even if he never gets past the Democratic convention, said Ciardi, Wallace's appearance alone might have a strong liberalizing effect on the Democratic Party, which is at present "only less conservative than the Republican Party itself...
...artifacts were imbedded in a layer of "old soil." Above them lay many, feet of wind-deposited material (loess), the result of great dust storms associated with the last (Mankato) glacial advance, 20,000 to 30,000 years ago. Apparently man reached Nebraska early enough to feel the effect of ice when it last crept toward his hunting grounds...