Word: effecting
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This instability has an immediate effect on the convenience of the Society to its members. We all know that the service in the store has not been entirely satisfactory. It is hard to see how it can ever be under the present system; for the Superintendent cannot promise a competent clerk fair wages and a prospect of reasonable increase with any certainty that his action will not be upset by a change in the Directorate. Interference by the Directors in such matters, where the responsibility should be borne by the Superintendent, has been a potent cause in the recent past...
...notices of withdrawal to take effect before the end of the College year, and all claims for allowance for temporary absence must be entered on the book in the Auditor's office before the close of the dinner hour today...
...notices of withdrawal to take effect before the end of the College year, and all claims for allowance for temporary absence must be entered on the book in the Auditor's office before the close of the dinner hour tomorrow...
Some searching criticism has followed when still another director arises in Wednesday's CRIMSON and says in effect: "Hold, hold. These whom you criticise are members of the Faculty endorsed by the President and Fellows. How could you get a more perfect set of men or a better plan?" Now it is submitted that because the Corporation considers a man fit to instruct in Engineering or even to be in the English department it does not thereby recommend him as an expert in seismology or for president of the steel trust or even as an average acute business...
Professor Sabine's argument in support of the statement that the Directors' plan is "not co-operative in effect" appears to question the disinterested- ness of the Directors, as well as the wisdom of the policy which the Directors persuaded the Society to endorse at the last annual meeting. The Directors hold that they should consider not only the rate of dividend declared upon the purchases made by the members, but also the comfort and convenience of the members, so far as the latter depend upon the efficiency of the body of persons employed in the Society's stores...