Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...afraid that the new rule that base-ball players should not receive more than $2,000 salary, would have a depressing effect," remarked McSwilligan...
...What effect have you noticed?" asked Podsnap...
...closing, the writer expresses the fears felt as to the ultimate results of the New Education. "A tendency to self-indulgence and shallowness," "the effect upon academies and fitting schools of the country," "the effect on the higher education" and "the effect on the character of the youth," are the fears which lead Prof. Ladd to oppose the New Education...
...repeated cry for an American university of the English stamp. This premature call for something that is at present foreign to our nature is illustrative of the typical American. We are a pushing people, proud of our success and jealous of those who surpass us. The University is the effect, not the cause, of ambitions for trained scholarship. A desire to learn must come before institutions of learning can be successful. It is true there is a reaction exerted by the college upon the educational character of the people. Growth of learning and of colleges or universities must go hand...
...humanity. The new political economy shows that no ideal standard of man need be omitted. Years pass before the beautiful adjustments between capital and labor, on which the optimists dwell, come to pass. Legislation may do much to help in industrial crises. As witnesses of this, the good effect of the establishment of coffee houses, savings banks, etc., on the continent is cited. Labor has learned in this country to know its power, and how by holding the balance of power politically it may accomplish its end. The leaders of labor associations desire to use their political power to further...