Word: effective
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...feet a flow of fifty gallons per minute has been secured. This water will be used for washing, and in the ice plant. It will not be used for drinking unless it is found pure and the consent of the Corporation is received. The use of the well will effect a large saving in the water bills which have hitherto been a considerable item in the expenses of the hall...
...skilfully executed by Mr. F.L. Olmsted '94. The auditorium and entrances will be electrically lighted until the hour of the performance. The stage and actors will be made visible in all parts of the grounds by lime lights which will be so managed as to create an almost perfect effect, judging from recent performances at Wellesley and New York by this same company. The cast of "As You Like It" will be as follows: Duke, living in banishment, Henry Hadfield Jaques, Amiens, A Lord, attending on the Duke, Ben Greet, Robert S. Pigott, Percy Waram Oliver, Jacques, Orlando, sons...
Holy Cross proved unexpectedly weak in the field, and was unable to hit Coburn with any effect. Spring was unsteady at critical moments and was hit freely in the third, fourth, and seventh innings...
...Lecture Hall last night. The subject was "Emerson as a Philosopher," and the lecture consisted chiefly of an explanation and appreciation of Emerson's philosophy. The general opinion of philosophers and scientists until recently favored materialism which attempts to explain all things by mechanical laws of cause and effect and which emphasizes body, not mind. Philosophic opinion is now, however, beginning to favor idealism, which believes many things above mechanical law and which emphasizes mind rather than body. Emerson was thoroughly inclined to this belief of idealism and he is consequently in complete harmony with modern thinking. Because of this...
...corporation of Yale university recently voted to make the programme of studies in the freshman year elective, thus leaving the entire academic curriculum elective. This change will go into effect next fall...