Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...patient! we shall reap as much as if we worked. But this is not an inevitable conclusion; on the contrary, that very law which decrees that all things shall follow necessarily from their causes, decrees that our least effort, our most trifling act, shall not lack its proportionate effect. True, all future events are determined, but only because their antecedents were determined first: and so far from the truth is it that we cannot change our destiny, that in fact we cannot but change it. If we work, we turn the current of our lives in one direction...
...greater number. Nor do we believe that this has been the motive of the committee. In each case they have been led by moral reasons, either in accordance with their crusade against professionals or, as in the case of foot-ball, from their belief in its brutalizing effect...
...must also add that only one complaint was put in the Complaint box in four weeks, and that was to the effect that only four chairs were left in the gallery. I am very happy to say that the other fourteen were needed in the Hall...
...that even deliberative conferences would be advisable, probably secures the continuance of these meetings, whatever may be the outcome of the discussion at the adjourned meeting. This is a good move, and one which will doubtless meet the approval of the students. Even without executive power, such meetings can effect much good in keeping the two bodies, faculty and students, informed of each other's position on all points of mutual interest...
...plan can be modified, perhaps, to good effect, but the main features of it are such as to give a representative and experienced delegation, easy to elect, and admirably fitted to serve as a medium between students and faculty...