Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...effect of this armed suspicion is upon the instruction given, upon the students themselves it is even more depressing. Not content with ticketing us off with all Russia, indeed, by means of passports, the Government even forces on us the ignominy of a uniform which we are obliged to wear, under heavy penalties, at all times outside the University walls. We are treated as natural enemies and spies are set to watch us at every corner. No social position is given us. The army is the road to influence. We are permitted no discussion of local matters, much less matters...
...indication that the recent discussion in the Nation of the so-called senior society evil at Yale has not been without effect on the college itself, is seen in the fact that at a meeting of the senior class of the college last week a resolution condemning the system was lost by a very narrow vote. Naturally the discussion is one that chiefly interests Yale men, since the society system in vogue at New Haven has very few points of similarity with the system at any other college. As it is it must be considered an excellent thing that...
...gymnasium on Friday and Saturday of this week. An attempt will be made to increase the heating capacity of the boiler so as to render it capable of heating water quickly enough to meet the demand made upon it between five and six o'clock in the afternoon. To effect this it will be necessary to turn off the water for the time stated above...
...closing my last article I quoted from the opinion of the faculty of the Berlin University, written in 1869, to the effect that the modern languages do not furnish a substitute for the ancient languages, "for, since as a rule the only thing aimed at in their study is a certain facility of use, they cannot serve in equal manner as an instrument of culture." In this quotation, I said, the keynote of the whole question was struck. We must keep the ancient languages in our colleges as they furnish the only successful instrument of culture. I do not believe...
...received their preparatory training in a Realschule should be admitted to the Universities, and, if they were admitted, under what restrictions this should be done. The answers, taken as a whole, were distinctly opposed to the Minister's implied proposal. The decree was nevertheless issued and went into immediate effect...