Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...evils of what may be regarded as the new departure in our higher seats of learning. When indiscriminate choices are prompted, as in not a few cases they are, by the love of ease, or by some freak of fancy, it is easy to say what will be the effect on the intellectual life and growth of the student who makes such choices. But, where an institution is situated, as Brown University is, in the midst of a mechanical, manufacturing and commercial community, where there are scores of young men to whom a mere literary training is a matter...
...extent consummated by the establishment of the conference committees. That this organization has accomplished something for the interests of the students might be shown by several instances, notably in matters connected with the ball nine, in changing the time of the senior elective examinations, and in undoubtedly' producing an effect on the minds of the faculty committees when the subject of annuals, that great bugbear of Williams, was under discussion. But even if this organization had exerted no influence, even if its sphere of action were smaller than at present, it is still an excellent institution, inasmuch...
...ticket. In quick succession Messrs. F. S. Goodwin, Boston Latin School, L. H. Morgan, St. Mark's, and G. T. Keyes, Nichols' Private School, were elected to the captaincies of the eleven, nine, and crew. The meeting now declared itself adjourned, and proceed to carry the adjournment into effect by making its exit per fenestras, though a considerable number availed itself of the door in a more dignified retreat...
...being, it is presumed that the faculty exerted their power through having the right to say in what places students shall lodge, or what is equivalent, shall not lodge. In this way great moral suasion can be used, and as was the case Monday night, with a good effect. Many a freshman has reason to thank the faculty for their sudden, though genuine interest in his welfare...
...nearly 190 members, and the class of '83 was nearly as large. In the succeeding years, however, the size of the incoming classes fell off, and the Yale authorities were unable to attribute the decline to any more substantial reason than hard times. In the hope of counteracting the effect of the new inducements which Harvard was yearly offering, numerous concessions to the advocates of a more extended elective system were made. But for some reason the result is disappointing, for the present freshman class at Yale numbers only 134. On the other hand, the Sheffield Scientific School...