Word: effective
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...special meeting of the Board of Overseers held in Boston yesterday, the resignation of President Eliot was presented and accepted to take effect May 19, 1909. The letter of resignation, which is printed below, was presented to the Corporation at its regular meeting on October 26, at which time it was voted to communicate the resignation to the Overseers at a special meeting...
...Senate Committee has passed a resolution in favor of such banks. It is hoped that Congress will pass a bill to that effect, at its next session. The plan advocated is a simple one. The money entrusted to the postal savings banks will be turned over to the national banks in the neighborhood, so that it will be easily accessible. All people over ten years of age will be allowed to open accounts. Interest, amounting to 2 per cent. will be paid on all deposits not exceeding five hundred dollars...
...Wigglesworth '08, president of the Shooting Club, has presented a perpetual challenge cup to be shot for each fall and spring. The conditions under which the competition will be conducted have been regulated by the donor to the following effect: A competitor must be an undergraduate of good standing. Each competitor will hand in his score for ten strings of twenty-five birds, the best eight of which will count for the cup. The period in which the cup will be shot for is not to exceed three weeks. The winner will retain the cup until...
...their fellow citizen in those highest things in which we may be his if we will, for the hospitality of his welcome will not be wanting. Something Athenian, something Florentine, something essentially republican and democratic in the ideals common to them all has had its especial effect in him through that temperamental beneficence, that philanthropy in a peculiar sense, so characteristic of him. I suppose he never met any man without wishing to share with him the grace of his learning, the charm of his wisdom, the light of his knowledge of the world; but this is poorly suggestive...
...frank in respect to its literary shortcomings is the current number of the Advocate that criticism is disarmed. The few stories and verses do not pretend to be more than they are, --casual productions of a wholesome undergraduate life. And this is a relief. Self-consciousness, and straining for effect, are far too prominently characteristic of undergraduate compositions...