Word: effecting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Edward Carroll Moore, of the Department of Education, has accepted the appointment as president of the Los Angeles Normal School, to take effect on August 1. Professor Moore will complete the academic year at the University and expects to leave for California some time in the early part of the summer. The Los Angeles Normal School, with an enrolment of 1,600, has become a school of considerable influence, and Professor Moore accepted the new position under instructions to develop the normal school into a teachers' college...
...President Eliot said: "The principals of high schools have not kept in mind the importance of the elective system." He maintained that the cure of most of the educator's troubles lay in the proper adoption of the elective system, provided that care was used in carrying it into effect. He stated also that there was a need for physical training, such as is in force in the military system of Switzerland, and better instruction in hygiene...
...Theodore Clark '17 and Coach Donovan, ex-officio. It was organized to afford a means of graduate supervision of track athletics. It meets regularly weekly or bi-weekly from September until June. At its meetings the performance of individual runners is discussed and ways and means put into effect for bettering the same. Thus recently a series of talks by graduates based on actual racing have been instituted. The first of these given by Herbert Jaques '11 recently was highly successful. The general policy of the team in regard to its intercollegiate activities is defined and attempts made to expand...
...read as though they were edited by grammar school students and still others, at best nothing more than glorified bulletin boards, betray a striking lack of initiative on the part of their managers. The influence, for good or evil, which a college newspaper possesses is not always appreciated. What effect it has upon the students of the college need not be seriously considered. But what effect it has upon students in preparatory schools is a thing that should not be lost sight of by the college authorities. Most of our big high schools and private schools are favored with exchange...
...raise the money in a short time, but they plan to go slowly and to give years to the collection of the fund." Quite the contrary, the committee has given the $10,-000,000 Fund considerable publicity both in the newspapers and otherwise. This publicity has had the effect of prompting several very substanial gifts wholly unsolicited and many expressions of enthusiasm on the part of Harvard's friends. These facts lead to the belief that when actual soliciting is begun, as it will be very shortly, the response will be immediate and generous...