Word: effected
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hour examination is meant to stir the lazy, it falls short of its mark. Its occurrence may produce a temporary effect toward industry, but the lasting good that accrues is hard to see. Is it just that the difficult and vexatious work necessary to prepare for an hour examination should be inflicted upon the great number of conscientious students, simply for the good of a few who are either lazy or reckless? It seems that nearly all the instructors are coming to this opinion. Such a system seems to accord ill with the liberal spirit that generally pervades Harvard...
...Tuesday night, Col. Livermore gave a very interesting informal talk before the Finance Club, on the effects of the tariff on the cotton manufacturing industry. Col. Livermore was, for many years, the superintendent of the Amoskeag cotton mills at Manchester. He was a most successful manager and knew the business of cotton manufacturing to its smallest detail. He was therefore well fitted to talk of the effect that an increase or reduction of the tariff would have on that industry...
...economic courses now given at Harvard in the prominence of the historical method. Professor Dunbar lectures upon the economic history of Europe and America since the seven years war, and also upon the history of financial legislation in the United States. Assistant-Prof. Laughlin considers the economic effect of land tenures in England, Ireland, France and Germany-a subject from the standpoint of economic history, the most important in the whole field. Assistant-Prof. Taussig lectures upon the history of economic theory and upon the history of tariff legislation in the United States. The creation of suggestive environment...
...what is the effect of this upon X, and through him upon Harvard athletics? He says to himself, "Why should I do anything more for the college? Why should I try to advance the cause of athletics? I shall not be working for my friends, but only for my enemies." Thus he either drops out of athletics, or goes about his duty in a heartless way, which insures defeat...
...committee of the Dartmouth faculty appointed to adjust the election troubles of the senior class, is attempting to effect a compromise between the two divided sections...