Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...matter is to be taken in hand, the present sophomore class is the one to do it, and not the upper classmen. The experiment might result most disastrously, but an attempt on the other hand might effect changes both unexpected and beneficial...
...Hessletine, '88, for the affirmative, confined his remarks to the Episcopal churches. The time is rapidly approaching when there will be one universal church, but this would be destroyed if the parochial school system went into effect. One of the greatest successes in this country has been the public school...
...Home rule would have an evil effect upon Ireland...
...Home rule would have an evil effect upon Great Britain.- National Rev., v., 238, vii., 272, 281; Spectator, lviii., 1092; Fortnightly Rev., xlv., 861; Living Age, clxvi...
...Matthew Arnold Impressed Me," we have a glowing and well-written account of the effect of the English poet's work on a plastic mind. The personality of the author is thrust for ward rather more than propriety or good taste would allow in an article of this kind. Without wishing to be cynical, I find considerable presumption in its spirit. The talents of the writer give promise for a very fair future, but let him delay the publication of his autobiography until the world may fairly be assumed to be more anxious...