Word: effective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plans of the Phillips Brooks House to incorporate medical and dental students in its social service activities, mark a definite attempt to effect periodical examination of all the children in the care of the Boston settlement houses. It is explained that the immediate need for such supervision arises from the danger of permitting physically deficient children to engage in athletics which might permanently impair their health. It is to combat this danger, arising from the ignorance of parents under a regulation which refuses them access to the physical reports of the public schools, that these students of the medical...
...assumption that it lies within the power of the high school coach to prevent the impending catastrophe is rather a reversion of cause and effect. The secondary school has long favored mimicking the college so far as athletic policy is concerned. It is rather unfair for the big brother to accuse his adoring relative of the fault of overemphasis when he has been an erring example...
...have been invited to create a temporary organization . . . to counter act the effect of the recent panic in the stockmarket. . . . The cure for such storms is action. . . . No movement to reduce wages. . . . The greatest tool of stability is construction and maintenance work. The improvements and betterments and general cleanup of plants. . . . All of these efforts have one end-to assure employment. . . . A great responsibility rests upon the whole people. I have no desire to preach. I may, however, mention one good old word-work...
Announcement has been made to the effect that employment facilities for this year's graduating class are being made effective by the new Alumni Placement Service which has recently taken over this function from the Student's Employment Office. Those in charge of the office have placed their facilities at the disposal of Seniors to talk over various work opportunities, and they have repeatedly made it clear that discussion of this sort carries no obligation of ultimate placement through this office. A reply to the questionnaire from every member of the Class of 1930 is considered essential to the effectiveness...
...Hoover's message which refer to that subject. Wets cannot honestly deny his first statement, namely that the first duty of the President under his oath of office is to secure the enforcement of the laws, nor his second, namely that the enforcement of the laws enacted to give effect to the eighteenth amendment is far from satisfactory. Beyond that there may be honest differences of opinion between wets and drys. President Hoover leaves no doubt, however, as to where he stands. He is in favor of a greater and more comprehensive program for enforcement...