Word: effective
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...seniors have now all received their caps and gowns, which are extremely picturesque in their effect. The present junior class is agitating the subject of establishing the custom of wearing caps and gowns throughout the senior year, as it is thought that the dignity which the gowns give might as well be utilized all the time, as well as in the spring alone...
Question: "Resolved, That the ethical drama has a general bad effect on public morals...
...wherever the blame, the effect is alike unfortunate. As in the case of athletics, the college has to teach an ideal which should be already recognized. The very fact that the college itself finds it necessary to hold stated examinations, tends to encourage new students in their conviction that beyond passing an examination they have no concern with a subject. This spirit greatly impairs the value of the college examinations. It is carried into daily work to such an extent that the real student is rarely developed before the junior or senior year, and often...
...contrast which our students thus present to those of foreign countries, is due to no improper forcing of the latter. The cause is to be found in the weakness and inadequacy of our methods of education for the young. The effect of this weakness is to bring boys of fourteen or fifteen to the preparatory schools with very little actual knowledge, and with no systematic training at all. In the process of hurrying such backward scholars into college, it is no wonder, and but small blame to the instructors, that the immediate preparatory training is itself insufficient and unsatisfactory...
...graduates who have been editors of the CRIMSON. The plan was very heartily endorsed by all present and H. Ware '93, M. Ladd '94, and E. H. Warren '95 were appointed a committee to ascertain the feeling of old editors on the matter, and with powers to effect an oganization...