Word: effecting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...scarcely heard, will be the men on whom the Endowment Drive must look for aid in the future. What better way to stir old memories in these distant graduates than to send an undefeated Harvard football team through their country! -- a team which has beaten Yale! The psychological effect should be tremendous. For, after all, the eleven will represent the College in the West; its merits will be our merits...
Asked as to whether he favored the system of having dormitories for all the classes, Professor Leacock replied that strongly as the dormitories impressed him, he could never support any plan that endangered the freedom of the individual. "We have seen the effect of the Prussian system of compulsion in the universities," he went on, "and we must be careful that we do not lose that freedom which has always characterized British and American university life...
...Suppression of any sort is a consequent loss of originality. Even though the obnoxious idea in question is momentarily crushed, and the man who advanced it is discharged, there is a doubly evil effect--the question is brought into greater prominence than before, and others professors find themselves afraid to step at all beyond the limits of complete conventionality. For fear of suppression they dare not carry on their work nor their investigations...
Jack Manning, who has been associated with rowing at the University for 17 years, has resigned his position as coach to take charge of the Norton Boat Club in Worcester. His resignation is dated to take effect on December 1, and until then he will continue in his present capacity at the Newell Boat House...
...That the Student Council should summarily reject the plan does not suggest that they considered the matter too carefully. Constituted, as that body is, with a large proportion of its members being the Captains and Managers of the present major sports, it is not hard to observe their psychological effect on the body as a whole. We may suppose that these men are not deeply concerned with the creation of another major sport. It is pertinent to note, also, that the minor sports have no representation whatsoever...