Word: effect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fruits of its alumni's toil, and since there will be increasing outside criticism as Harvard football gets better (After all, what red-blooded American boy would want to go to Harvard?), it helps to know what alumni do and don't do, why they do it, and what effect athletics has on admissions policy...
...alumnus cannot offer more to a football player than he can to a regular candidate, since all admissions and scholarship decisions are made in University Hall. If "alumni recruiting" has had any major effect, it has been to interest the alumnus in all types of candidates and to stimulate scholarship fund-raising activity in the Harvard Clubs...
Discussion of the matter of revising room rents has passed to the offices of the Deans of the College and of the Faculty, and a tentative decision has been reached to institute a compromise rent plan to take effect next year...
...Thirties were, in many ways, the "Golden Age" of History and Lit. The new limitation on enrollment had just taken effect, and F.O. Matthiessen, chairman of the board of tutors, began to emphasize the honors character of the field. History and Lit became, Perkins says, "insensibly, by circumstance, not by original plan" an honors field. A mystique grew up around the field; there was a tendency for History and Lit people to talk in terms of "we happy few;" they felt, as one observer put it, that "everybody from T. S. Eliot to Marx can be understood in terms...
...confined in one cage without roaring each other down. Director Mann has obviously cracked the whip, but some of the credit also belongs to Author Rattigan, whose script is the very model of a lion act-the exits and entrances precisely timed, the terrors tactfully spaced, the total effect not seriously disturbing but guaranteed to make the customers forget their troubles in the simple animal pleasure of watching someone else...