Word: effective
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first of these gives evidence of the excellence of the Harvard system; the second promises to aid materially in its preservation. The trophy will doubtless prove a real inducement to good work by future entrants. It would be expecting too much to suppose that the effect of the trophy will be anything like immediate, but it is certain that the school which gets the trophy will not want to give it up, and that the others will do their best to win it from...
...course is on a subject which heretofore has been scantily treated at the University. The Department of Philosophy and Psychology has announced several other changes and additions in the instruction. Professor Hattori, the new exchange professor from Japan will give three half courses dealing with Confusius and his effect on Japanese life and thought...
While again some exception might be taken to the tempo of the Hungarian march, its performance attained a genuine climax of brilliance, verve and picturesque effect...
Another of the most important economizing plans which has been recently put into effect is co-operation of departments in such a manner that like supplies are bought at competitive contractors' prices, thus accomplishing a saving of many thousands of dollars. For example, the eight thousand barrels of flour used for the hospitals are now bought in one contract, instead of in installments as formerly. On this item alone $30,000 is saved. We require more than this, however, we must get not only co-operation within the individual department, but co-operation of all the city departments collectively...
These considerations have led the Faculty to introduce the change in the first-year department to go into effect next fall. This change will consist principally in the introduction of a course on general liabilities during the first half-year which will furnish the necessary groundwork for the other divisions and in bringing the students under as many different professors as possible