Word: effective
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...times the best scholars and writers have striven to inculcate in men a love of learning for its own sake, or, rather, for the sake of its educational effect, and in our own time so strong has been the desire for a thorough cultivation and development of all the intellectual powers, with no regard to professional or pecuniary objects, that a new word to express it, or at least an old one with increased meaning, has come into use, In direct contrast to such a spirit is the system of rewards and punishments which Harvard is fast shaking...
...editors of the Magenta wish to state as their opinion, that the motion passed at the meeting Wednesday afternoon, to the effect that Harvard was not in favor of intercollegiate literary contests, was unnecessary, uncalled for, and ill-timed...
...practical advantage of the most radical reform exists only in theory. Of course, any system allowing greater freedom is sure to find sturdy partisans; but the desirability of voluntary recitations has not yet been proved. What the effect of throwing open these Elysian fields may have on the "margin of cultivation" (to quote our amiable friend, Mrs. Fawcett) is uncertain; but a judicious use of the privilege will doubtless make the students' labor easier; a man may get through many subjects, with a recitation now and then, and perhaps get as high a per cent as now, by making...
...possessed it, and, accordingly, a referee and five judges were chosen; but later, upon examining the minutes of the Hartford Convention, it has been found that the appointment of judges and referee rests with the captains of the competing crews. Therefore, the choice made at Springfield is of no effect. A committee to have the management of the Regatta Ball was also appointed, and consists of Mr. F. R. Appleton of Harvard, Mr. R. J. Cook of Yale, Mr. G. R. Allerton of Columbia, Mr. C. B. Hubbel of Williams, and Mr. Wm. J. Roberts of Trinity...
...college discipline, partly as a morning roll-call, and partly as a means of enforcing continuous residence. It was, therefore, interesting to observe that the omission of morning prayers for nearly five months, at the time of year when the days are shortest and coldest, had no ill effects whatever on college order or discipline. There was no increased irregularity of attendance at morning exercises, no unusual number of absences, and, in fact, no visible effect upon the other exercises of the College, or upon the order and quiet of the place," etc. It is to be hoped that these...