Word: effected
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...often wonder whether the greedy devouring of magazine reading will not blunt the edge of their old-time appetite for classic works. It is the experience of most students to feel no such effect...
Synopsis of 7th lecture. Some causes affecting the heart's action. External injuries. Emotions. Syphilis. Tobacco. Excessive work in laboring men. Some diseases causing heart affections. Effect of alcohol on the heart and circulation...
...thousand dollars, which is five per cent on the original outlay, which is a very fair return on money invested. Add to these purely business considerations that you would be giving the students a far better quality of light than they now enjoy, and one which no vitiating effect on the atmosphere, and it is evident that the college would be conferring a great benefit to the students at no expense to itself. In addition, the college would then have it in its power to light the library without the fear of fire, thus granting an inestimable boon...
...hoped that the Conference Committee will soon be able to effect some arrangement whereby the present system of examination will be modified. Under the present regime, there seems to be and possibly there can be, no uniformity of method in preparing examination papers. Some instructors give short papers with few questions and expect to have each question pretty thoroughly discussed. Other instructors give long papers with numerous questions. The answers to such questions must necessarily be brief; owing to their brevity they are liable to be faulty, even with the most careful student, and it is not likely that they...
This interest in English composition has had another effect upon the students. The man who works hard over his English, and is supposed to have literary ability, is not deemed a grind, in just the same way that a great classical or mathematical scholar is. He who writes for the college papers gets a popularity, small to be sure, but in kind, somewhat like that of the athlete. It is, in a certain degree, a credit to the class. Accordingly, many who cannot distinguish themselves in athletics, are beginning to look upon a place on an editorial board...