Word: effecting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Ira N. Hollis h.'99 of the Engineering School has accepted the invitation of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute to become president of that institution, the appointment to take effect July 1 of the present year. He has been professor of engineering in the University since 1893 and was at the head of the Department of Engineering from that date...
...been officially announced by the Athletic Committee that Mr. Edgar H. Wells '97 has declined the position of Graduate-Treasurer now held by Mr. W. F. Garcelon L. '95. The announcement of Mr. Garcelon's intended resignation from this position was made in January. It takes full effect on August 1, 1913. The post carries a great deal of responsibility and demands much time from its incumbent. It has been thought for some time that Mr. Wells might accept the offer, but the refusal received by the Committee is definite...
...question of combining the Monthly and the Advocate has been a mooted one for may years. From the time of the Monthly's inception in 1885 several definite proposals for a merger have been made, but have been consistently rejected through the inability of the two papers to effect a satisfactory compromise. The abstract advantages of combination, without reference to sentiment or tradition, are obvious. Whatever difference in field may exist is purely of degree, and by continued independent action the magazines tend to develop a mutual hindrance which makes it impossible that the College should be fairly represented...
...rumor has been circulating about the University lately to the effect that the only marks returned by the College Office, beginning next September, would be A, B, C, or F. The truth of the matter is that the Graduate Schools of Applied Science have decided to drop the D from their marking system. This means that a man will either fail absolutely to pass a course or will pass it with a fairly satisfactory grade...
...Upsilon cast was marked. Moreover, time has made stale so many of the lines which originally delighted an audience that the comedy must be played fast, with skillful pointing of the lines and some building up by action to make places weak for a modern audience produce their old effect. There was too much over-rapid speech with slowness on cues. The cast should act not merely while speaking but steadily, keeping well within the picture. The actors should let themselves go enjoy the fun of the play and thus make the audience enjoy it. In the last scene...