Word: effective
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...civilizations of the East and West came into clash, the open-door policy was forced upon China. She suffered humiliations and defeats at the hands of the western invaders, and finally realized that she must strive to adapt herself to new conditions. A series of reforms were already in effect before the Manchu dynasty was overthrown. Of these, the educational policy underwent the most radical change. Western scientific courses were introduced, and the examinations on old classics were abolished. Today schools for new learning stand on the ground of the spacious examination halls...
...editorial appeared in the last issue of the Illustrated expressing an urgent wish that the "Widener Debaters" could be persuaded to hold forth elsewhere. With all due respect to the Illustrated, I do not believe that an editorial of protest published once will have any very concrete or lasting effect, and, accordingly I am writing this in the hopes, that the repetition of the idea and the fact that it will be presented to a larger number of undergraduates, will bear fruit...
Rumors to the effect that Princeton will be forced to be quarantined or disbanded if any more cases of scarlet fever developed, have been declared unfounded by Dr. Joseph E. Raycroft, Director of the Department of Physical Education. The regulation in question, it has been ascertained, applies only to public schools under the jurisdiction of the local board of education, which has no control over Princeton...
...recent years, however, there has been some flow in the opposite direction. Not only have many Oriental students come to American universities, especially for technical education, but European students have also visited our shores in greater numbers. One important effect of the war is expected to be the freeling of America from the intellectual domination of European scholarship. Another result should be an increased number of students in the universities of a land unhampered by the hardships of a reconstruction. All this means a wider influence for American thought; it should also mean a broader view for the American student...
...congratulated upon the stand they have taken in regard to student waiters. It has been pointed out that the employment of student waiters would make it easier for many men now in the College to work their way through, but even more important would be the effect on the position of Harvard in the coun- try at large...