Word: effective
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reform in admission requirements is necessary-a reform which shall effect the purposes which the devisers of the present requirements had in mind. In some way subsidiary reading, in connection with the required books, should be encouraged. No doubt the setting of alternative questions as a part of the examination would help intelligent and ambitious, teachers to improve the English work in their schools...
That is the position Yale has now taken. Harvard's representative at the athletic meeting suggested an amendment to Yale's proposed rule to the effect that graduates of one year's residence should be allowed to compete, but when Yale accepted the amendment the Harvard representative voted against...
...series of lectures arranged by the Natural History Society. Professor Searle of the Observatory will deliver the four lectures treating on the elements of Astronomy. While the course in itself will not be very advanced, it will doubtless prove interesting and instructive. We hope it may have the effect of leading to something higher. Every year the college publications have made futile appeals that the study of Astronomy should become a part of the curriculum. If by such lectures as these to be given by Professor Searle, the faculty may be made to feel the strength of the desire...
...same emotion by three widely different schools of musical composition,-the strictly classical school, the romantic school and the school of what fifteen years ago was called the Music of the Future." The first relies on form, the second on imaginative beauty, and the third on dramatic power for effect...
...University, including the reports of the deans of the several schools and of the heads of the different departments, will be a source; of no little satisfaction to all who have carefully watched the results of our elective system. Those who were at first fearful of the effect of such a system on Harvard, have, year by year, seen the plan emerging from doubtful to certain success until now there are hardly any grounds on which the workings of the system can be said to be unsatisfactory...