Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...designed not to extend a hearty welcome to its neophytes, but rather to put the fear of God into those rash souls who dared to climb the steps of Langdell Hall and seek therein a legal education. "Gentlemen," the professors in charge of the first classes are reported in effect to have said, "The men who are sitting to the right and left of you today will not be here to graduate with you three years hence." But anyone who attended the introductory courses in the Law School yesterday morning must have been startled and abashed, and tempted to wonder...
...recommendation last spring of a Student Council committee, upper class intramural programs have been handed back to a centralized H.A.A. committee. Funds are set aside to provide compensation for managers in each House who are expected to prove more efficient than the unpaid students of the system in effect through last year...
Generalizing on the new Law School curriculum, which will go into effect in the fall of next year, the new Dean of the School, James M. Landis, stated that "we are striving to increase the emphasis on public law and its significance in the light of political developments...
...Dean expressed himself as anxious to see the final law school registration figures of this year to see the effect of the new "increased selection" admissions policy, of which he spoke strongly in favor. "The policy is based upon the finding that there is a class correlation between a man's work in college and his work in law school," he asserted. He claimed that those excluded would have had at least a 60 per cent chance of failing, and he hoped that the effect of the policy would be to reduce the number of the failures in the first...
...rest, the plot is girl meets boy, girl gets boy, boy looses girl, winn(ing)er take all, or something to that effect. As the successful Broadway producer, Charles Winninger turns in the most believable performance. He is the peg from which are hung the story's numerous coats and vests. Round him revolve the successful musicomedy author, Don Ameche, the would-be writer of tragedy, Alice Faye, the nigger in the woodpile, Gypsy Rose Lee, alias Louise Hovick, stooges just stooges, the Ritz Brothers, and incidentally Rubinoff and his violin...