Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...built of rough, slate-colored stone, and is set off by a medieval-looking tower after the style of an Italian campanile. Its general symmetry is, in the opinion of some, slightly marred by several excrescences with small spires, that project from the roof and produce a somewhat unpleasant effect upon the near spectator...
Particular attention is called to the announcement that the changes of the dinner hour at Memorial (5.30 to 6.30 instead of 6 to 7) will not go into effect until a week from today...
There is considerable agitation at the University of Pennsylvania in regard to the extensive cribbing during examinations. The last Magazine remarks, with every indication of a great intellect, that espionage during examinations is undoubtedly a bad thing in itself, but seems to be the effect and not the cause of this cheating...
...cent of the highest grade use tobacco, 48 per cent of the second, 70 per cent of the third, and 85 per cent of the fourth. The majority of the students at Cornell have, it is said, resolved to give up smoking on the ground of its bad effect upon the health and capacity for study...
...class committee and the secretary have tried to canvass the class thoroughly for subscriptions to the class and college funds, some we have been unable to see and several have desired to consider the matter, so that many who intend to subscribe have given no notice to that effect. I shall therefore be much obliged if all those will inform me soon how much they desire to subscribe. I would remind subscribers that the first instalment (one-fifth) of the class fund subscriptions was due May 1, and the first instalment (one-tenth) of the college fund June...