Word: effective
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Clement L. Smith has resigned the office of dean, his resignation to take effect in June...
...President speaks first of changes in the administrative boards and passes next to the new statutes recently put into effect through the dissolution of the Faculty of Harvard College and of the Scientific School, and the organization of the single Faculty of Arts and Sciences to have charge of the college, the Scientific School and the graduate School, as well as the delegation of Faculty powers to sub-administrative boards...
...passage on the hourns; the half-comic theme of the wood instruments, all were splendidly played. The andante conmoto, a long slow movement, is a trifle monotonous when played on the piano, but in the orchestra, with the ever varying varieties of tone-color of the different instruments, the effect is far differenct...
...partial tones of one note must fall near enough to some of those of the other to produce this disagreeable interferference; while in all those called consonant the roughness from this source is insignificant in amount and the beauty of the tones involved can produce its full effect upon the ear. But later criticism has demanded a positive reason for the beauty of a concord and questions whether the character of an Interval depends to the extent asserted by Helmholtz upon the timbre of the notes comprising it. A view which may be ascribed to Von Oettingen points...
Statistics have been collected at New Haven in regard to the standing of athletic men which effectually confute the statements often made by uninformed persons to the effect that athletics tend to lower the standard of the men who engage in them. Below are given the number of men who received appointments who played on the university teams from the three upper classes, also the number receiving no appointment...