Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...extra work on men just before the examination time is a great injustice to them, and a hindrance to whatever preparation they may be making for the examinations. Instructors ought to be very careful before they decide to do this. Extra work can but have a discouraging effect on the men who are hard pressed enough anyhow at this time, and it may make a serious difference with their standing if they take sufficient time from their preparation to do the work well, as the instructors of course desire. There is no justice in such a proceeding to commend...
...revised tabular view for freshmen has been posted on the bulletin boards. It will go into effect today...
...these others must be those already acquainted with the wide field of general knowledge-educated educators. From this point of view elective studies have properly no place in the college course; they are an infusion of the university idea into the college, and they have the decidedly bad effect of encouraging the American tendency to 'save time' by crowding general education into fewer and fewer years so as to put the boy 'at his work' at the earliest age possible. It is a heritage from the old idea that to become a good merchant a boy must...
...Richardson of Amherst, Easton of the University of Pennsylvania, Huss of Princeton, Walter of the University of Michigan, and Smith of Columbia. President Carter of Williams was chosen chairman, and a committee appointed to draw up a plan for the permanent organization of the society. A resolution to the effect that it was the sense of the meeting that no college should grant the degree of A. B. to any student who could not read with facility French and German, was discussed but no definite decision was reached. The subject of introducing a system of conversation in German and French...
...printed and remailed to the various college papers belonging to the I. P. A. The advantages of such a scheme are many, and only papers belonging to the I. P. a. can have this done. The Acta Columblana was chosen head office and the plan will go into effect immediately. As no further work remained to be done the meeting adjourned sine die at two o'clock...