Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Medical Students Christian Association. A great cricketer named Studd, and a stroke of the Cambridge crew named Smith wished to go to China as missionaries. An opportunity was given them to speak to the students at Edinburgh. They were most enthusiastically received and their word had the most marvelous effect. There were countless instances of conversion. It was suggested that the workers should go to other universities. Everywhere they found agnostics, unbelievers, but their influence was such that many were converted, especially at the Universities of Aberdeen and Glasgow...
...condemn all undue show of solemnity, all sanctimoniousness. The religion of a young man need notice that of his grandmother, but a practical every-day Christianity, doing its good in unostentatious ways. Second, there is no interference with work. Meetings are held on Sunday. Yet those have shown their effect on the 3,600 students at Edinburgh in the three years that they have been held. Third, there is no interference with athletics or amusements, and many of the athletic men are workers in the cause. Some have gone to live in the slums of Edinburgh, not to distribute tracts...
...report is current in the New Haven and New York press to the effect that Albert Muller, a Yale student from Nevada, has turned adventurer. He has succeeded in swindling Lawyer Bennett out of $1000, and a New Haven bookseller has suffered to the extent of $300. He has fled and his whereabouts are unknown...
Tuition rates will probably be raised ten dollars a vear in the Academic department at Yale, the raise to go into effect next year...
...generally known that a plan has been under serious consideration to change the University course for those intending to study medicine. A rumor to this effect started in the Medical School last spring and soon spread among the college men who were interested in the subject. At first it was thought to have no foundation, but it now seems to have had good authority, and bids fair to be carried out before another year...