Word: effective
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Plays every year or every few years will meet with a warm reception in Cambridge, but they will not have as much effect as more frequent exhibitions of talent, even if it is amateurish. At present the inspiration to future play-wrights comes from club theatricals and Boston performances. Would it not be possible to develop, with the assistance of the English Department, a series of plays which would open opportunities to talent representing the entire University? As a centre for this activity we should suggest the Union. Monthly plays would be of value to the embryo writers and actors...
...were changed from assistants to Austin Teaching Fellows: R. H. Lord '06, History; H. S. McDowell '07, Engineering; H. E. Merwin '07, Mineralogy and Petrography; B. M. Varney '07, Physiography and Meteorology; S. Withington '07, Engineering. The resignation of I. O. Bragg, assistant in Astronomy, was accepted, to take effect December 1, 1907, and of W. C. Rice '06, assistant in Government, to take effect September...
...violation was not based upon any great popular demand, or on any pressing necessity caused by the interference of the Church with the functions of the State. The Separation Act was the result of more political scheming and Anti-Christian agitation. A. Horvitz '10 continued the argument to the effect that the specific provisions of the Act worked injustice to both Church and State. It was unjust to the Church because it abrogated salaries that had been granted the clergy as compensation for lands yielded to the State, without returning those lands; and because its provisions failed to take...
...accordance with a resolution passed by the University Debating Council on Thursday, November 7, to the effect that upper-class debating should be left to individual enterprise, an entirely new system of debating clubs has grown up within the University. In the place of the Agora and Forum of last year, there are now five independent societies, with a total membership of about 85. Two of them still retain the names of Agora and Forum, but they have been change constitutionally in the direction of informality. Debating has now become an essentially informal affair, and three of the clubs...
...this hearing the lawyers who presented the petition for the charter, President Eliot, and other gentlemen who spoke in favor of it, made no effect on the bostile committee of the legislature. Then Mrs. Agassiz arose to plead her own cause. Her address was a notable example of the effectiveness of public speaking; at its close the committee...