Word: effecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undeniable problems in the maintenance of a purely male community, however, worry many educators. Foremost is the 'unnatural' effect of coming into contact with women on weekends only. An artificial attitude towards dates and sex results when it becomes a special event to meet them; and although Albertus Magnus is in New Haven and Connecticut College for Women not too distant, weeknight dating is infrequent. There is consequently a compensatory amount of drinking...
Just as serious is the effect--academically--of the 'disintegration' of the Yale community on weekends. "A weekend away from New Haven, with a girl's college or one of its denizens as the magnet in the case, is now a regular occurrence.... The causes of this development are numerous and complicated, and the results are almost catastrophic, in my opinion, for the continued good health of undergraduate education at Yale," Thomas C. Mendenhall, Master of Berkeley College and Smith's president-elect, wrote in 1953. "When the student's original academic obligation and his self-imposed extra-curricular demands...
...Whatever effect the clubs may have on their members as individuals, their effect on the college as a whole is practically nil, and this is probably the system's strong point. At Princeton, where every undergraduate must join a club in order to eat, everyone must submit to Bicker's embarrassing process of social rating. The same is approximately true of any college where there is a widespread fraternity system. Some bitterness and bad feeling are bound to result when there is pressure on everyone to join and the club system is a matter of college-wide prestige. This...
...University Administration and the Cambridge police have completed plans to put into effect "massive security measures" against the possible appearance of Radcliffe cheerleaders in the Stadium tomorrow, or at the "pep rally" this evening...
Brzezinski also discussed Poland's "period of spontaneity" in 1956 and 1957 and outlined its effect on other satellite nations. "The presence of Poland's divergent pattern gives other states an argument against a universal brand of communism," he said...