Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...19th, but giving no reason for their extraordinary conduct. A meeting of a few representative base-ball men was immediately held, and it was decided to inform Yale that she must either stick to her agreement, or consider the game forfeited to Harvard. A telegram to this effect was immediately despatched. This behavior on the part of Yale is certainly peculiar and we trust that she will be able to give good and sufficient reasons for thus breaking her agreement...
...handed over for consideration to the five newly appointed preachers and the Plummer professor; that if they decided in favor of them - "and," he continued, "you may say from me, that they will undoubtedly be granted" - they would pass the Overseers with out any discussion; they would go into effect next year, and would probably be supplemented by an entire revision and enlargement of the religious instruction of the college. This news cannot but be a source of gratification to the men who have labored so earnestly for religious freedom here. Their goal is at last in sight; yet they...
Also, by vote of the faculty, the following regulation will go into effect next year: Every student is required to satisfy the instructor in each of his courses, in such way as the instructor shall determine, that he is performing the work of the course in a systematic manner. Instructors will report to the Dean from time to time the names of such students in their courses as have not satisfied them in this regard. Any instructor, with the approval of the Dean, may at any time exclude from his course any student who in his judgment has neglected...
...pushing the muscular system into the background, and good health is necessary to beat back the attacks of brain diseases. Man bears a heavy load of inherited diseases, due to the errors, sins, or misfortunes of his ancestors, but a knowledge of hygienic laws and efficient sanitary regulations can effect wonders in checking disease. The sanitary system of England has decreased the death rate in the last ten years to a considerable extent. From 1871 80 the death rate decreased on an average of 1144 annually to every million inhabitants. In Massachusetts, for the last four years, the death rate...
...conversation are of course largely classical, although there are no set topics for discussion. The free and cordial way in which students and instructors mingle with one another is a proof, not only of the progress which has made a university out of a college, but also of the effect of the elective system in establishing a community of interest between instructors and students. The student's familiarity with the professor can hardly fail to stimulate his enthusiasm in his chosen field of work. At the meetings held with the student members, a student reads a paper on some subject...