Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...truth improvements tend to decrease rather than to increase rent. Improvements in transportation obviously decrease rent, by bringing new lands into cultivation, or rendering old lands more accessible. Improvements in agriculture have the same effect. Mr. George, therefore, has neither fact nor argument to uphold...
...period of study is entitled to a certificate, stating the studies in which she has passed satisfactory examinations. Any one who has pursued such a course of study, and passed with distinction such examinations as are required for honors in Harvard College, shall receive a certificate to that effect. Any one who, having passed the regular examination for admission, has pursued with success a four years' course of study, such as would be accepted for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Harvard College, will be entitled to a certificate to that effect...
...additional argument was needed to show the disastrous effect of the anti-professional rule on our athletics, a decisive one has been given in the loss of both the Yale game and the Amherst game through Harvard's weakness at the bat. Our play in the field in both these games was all that could have been wished for; but it is folly to expect the nine to win games without being able to bat, and it is equal folly to expect a nine to be able to bat without any practice. Our nine enters the championship contest this year...
...course it is now too late in the season for any change in the rule against professionals to have any effect on our chances for this year; but it is essential for the success of the nine next year and for coming years that the rule should be repealed. And the sooner it is repealed the better; for the nine needs some encouragement to believe that it will not have to enter next year's contest handicapped as it is this...
...liberally educated man, gave one of the best definitions of a university when he said that he would found an institution where anybody could learn anything. On the side of teaching, we have not enough teachers. At Harvard more is thought than ever of the importance of producing effect on character, of training men to respect themselves and rely on themselves. It used to be said that the college stood the student 'in loco parentis.'" The speaker did not accept this theory, inasmuch as there are various kinds of parents, and it was impossible from the very nature...