Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cambridge Horse Railroad has a new rule to the effect that hereafter all valises be carried on the platform of the cars. As the company does not hold itself responsible for such valises, it becomes more or less of an undertaking to see one's valise safely through its journeys to and from the city...
...class of '88, here assembled in our last business meeting, earnestly desire to record our opinion in regard to certain questions which, in our judgment, closely effect the welfare of the college, and we do, therefore, adopt the following resolutions...
...under the penalty of death were away at the time the bomb was thrown. Only the first circulars made an appeal to arms, the later ones did not. The anarchists did not have a fair trial, the newspapers hounded them pitilessly and that if they are executed, the effect will be to make martyrs of them with their fellows and incite others to further crime...
...meeting was not very full, only fifty or sixty members being present. But Mr. William Thayer, of the class of '81, was present and when Captain Pfeiffer made a motion to have a resolution passed to the effect that a graduate advisory committee be appointed, he advocated it and seemed to think that the graduates would take an interest, and would work for the crew. Discussion then ensued as to the advisability of this committee and what powers it should have. Mr. Pfeiffer said his idea was that this committee of three men should be chosen and elected...
...that meeting, the said proposed rules or changes shall be acted upon and be returned by the Intercollegiate Association, with its approval or disapproval to the advisory committee at its summer meeting, to occur on the first Saturday in June. Those rules or changes approved, shall forthwith take effect; these disapproved shall go over for consultation until the following spring, unless they shall receive four votes in the Advisory Committee, in which case they shall immediately take effect...