Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...system, however, in spite of its advantages, is subject to constant abuse. Men are very careless about returning books to their proper places, and though complaints on this head are constantly appearing in the columns of the CRIMSON, they seem to have little effect. It takes more trouble to replace a book on its proper shelf than to leave it lying on the table. But it also takes more trouble to look over the ten or twelve tables in the reading room before finding a book, than to get it from the shelf where it belongs. Men forget that what...
...Mystery of the Charles River Dredger" is a fanciful tale of the courtships and marriage of a Harvard graduate and an Annex maid. The writer has put into words the doubts and questions which have been floating in many of our brains in regard to the effect of too much learning on the fair sex. The story is well told but we wish that some of the incongruities which mar its effect had been avoided. The "Religio Medici of Sir Thomas Browne" is a short sketch of the character and opinions of a strange figure of the 16th century...
...Scherzo capriccioso by Dvorak was given in Boston four weeks ago and was well received. It has the effect of a weird dance, and is very characteristic. The waltz movement is very strongly marked, while the harp obligato gives it a flowing effect. The work of the fluters in duett was very fine in this number...
...education, in regard to the bill relating to the schooling of children and the supervision of public and private schools, President Eliot spoke very earnestly against that portion of the bill which imposes upon the public school authorities the duty of approving private schools. He alluded particularly to the effect this provision would have upon the relations of the Catholic and the Protestant portions of the community. The breach between the two divisions of the population should be closed as much as possible; but the inevitable tendency of an act giving the public authorities the right to supervise private schools...
...former incredulity, and has convinced him that there was a strong prima facie case for careful investigation. The best authenticated cases are never sensational-no skeletons, clanking chains-and are always commonplace and purely personal. Mr. Hodgson illustrated his remarks by most vivid ghost stories, but spoiled the sensational effect by partially explaining them...