Word: effective
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...greatly by the efficient training of Mr. Warren A. Locke, the University choir-master. The Banjo Club has been remodelled under the new management and is playing better than ever. The number of banjeaurines has been increased and second banjos have been introduced so as to improve the harmonic effect. The Mandolin Club is composed entirely of experienced players and is keeping up the high standard which it has maintained for the last few years...
...exclusion of federal officers from party politics would do much to effect such a separation. (a) Parties would then be held together only by the questions of public principle. (b) Government service would be base on merit alone...
Suppose that such an arrangement were put into effect. Memorial would then accommodate about one thousand and seventy men, and another hall, on the same principle, would make the total number of men accommodated about twenty-one hundred and forty. With the membership in the University at three thousand, thirteen hundred men wish Memorial board. The two halls together would, if the same ratio were preserved, be ample for the University with a membership of forty-nine hundred. When the University has attained such a growth, it will have largely to increase all its facilities and be changed in many...
...moved by no spirit of animosity to football, but by quite the opposite feeling. Mr. Bacon saw Walter Camp, of Yale, and pursuaded him to act as chairman. A committee was then formed of men of high reputation and influence who prepared a set of questions as to the effect of football which were sent not only to old players of the three leading universities, but also to the players on the teams of last season at all the American colleges and to the active players in the leading preparatory schools...
...resolutions adopted by the Overseers yesterday are probably the initial steps in the most radical move Harvard has yet made to wards the education of women. The resolution to the effect that degrees of Harvard shall not be conferred on students of Radcliffe simply insists that the relations between the two institutions shall not be confused. The soundness of this position is not to be questioned. The second resolution has more import, it admits Radcliffe students to all Harvard courses which are intended primarily for graduates. Practically speaking, Harvard is to have coeducation in the Graduate School...