Word: effecting
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...author had known and loved. In "The Sophist" we have much a variation of the perennial motif as Polonius might call the tragical-psychological. The bearer of the title-role convinces an enamored college-friend that there is no such thing as the power of love, and with such effect that "It's all over" between the friend and his affianced. The "Power," embodied in none other than the woman aforesaid, turns out to be too strong for the Sophist himself, and so justifies the title. The real stage-business of the piece, the actual sophistry, like the killing...
Professor Kuno Francke, eurator of the Germanic Museum, has just received an official message from Saxony to the effect that His Majesty King Friedrich August has given to the Museum a full-sized reproduction in plaster of the sandstone pulpit of the church of Wechselburg, near Leipzig...
...certain sketchiness which suggests that the stories are in spirit, if not in letter, daily themes. There is firm, swift characterization in "Concerning Bores," and it is simple and direct up to the last sentence. There a touch of conscious exaggeration spoils all the effect of its preceding skill and sincerity. "A Committee of Three" seems to the present critic typical of a certain kind of college fiction, the value of which is very doubtful. It tells its story so allusively that it must remain elusive for most readers. When, too, the end is reached, the real content...
...resignation of L. W. Riddle '02, Austin Teaching Fellow in Botany, to take effect September 1, 1906, was received and accepted...
This new plan goes into effect next fall. A second important change is in regard to admission requirements to the College. In the first place, the substitution of the entrance papers given by the College Entrance Examination Board for the regular Harvard College entrance examinations has been extended to include all the following subjects: Elementary Greek, Latin, French, German, Greek and Roman History, Algebra, Plane and Solid Geometry, Physics and Chemistry, and Advanced Greek, Latin, German, French, History, Algebra, Logarithms and Trigonometry, and Solid Geometry. By this change, the work of those schools which send men to Harvard is simplified...