Word: effective
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor N. S. Shaler gave an illustrated lecture last night on the subject of "The Environment of Harvard." This word, environment, said Professor Shaler, has a profound significance. Not only does it imply the physical surroundings of man, but what is still more important, their effect upon his daily life and gradual development. In primitive times this development was dependent on the extent to which individuals and races were affected by the operation of natural laws, one sort of environment. In later times man has to a large extent been able to govern his own environment by artificial means...
Changes have been made in the fall practice schedule which will go into effect today...
Changes have been made in the fall practice schedule which will take effect Monday...
...busy during the vacation, having been filled by the students in the summer school. In these houses the experiments on the growth, movements, and respiration of plants have been conducted very successfully. In the laboratory proper, Dr. True and advanced students have been conducting experiments in regard to the effect of poisonous salts on plants...
...wrong-doing is punished by outward penalties, inflicted by others; but the punishment of the man's sin is the inward and silent corruption of his own power of doing right. It is because the man is free to do what he pleases that he is responsible for the effect of his choice upon himself...