Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the dome of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, acoustically the finest hall in the country, the Glee Club will offer a program of sixteenth century motets on Friday, May 21, in roder to get the effect of singing in a Gothic cathedral...
When we arrived at Taormina three hours later there was another family at the station to meet my companions whom apparently they had not seen in may years, for in the excitement of much saluting and kissing I too was kissed and told something to the effect how tall I'd grown! Then there was much laughing and explaining and finally my friends drove off in their donkey cart leaving me with salami and four taxi drivers wanting to take me 700 feet up the mountain where on a narrow rocky plateau rests Taormina, certainly one of the most charming...
...abusive language and "got rough". The result was rather alarming, as a mob that had been genial, even-tempered and in a sky-larking mood only several minutes before, became surly and pugnacious. It was not until bursars cards were confiscated, and the tear gas began to take effect that the riot was broken up with much bad feeling on both sides...
With altogether commendable high-mindedness and altruistic fervor our contemporary "The Monthly" has come out with its thought for the month to the effect that since "faculty men are not well qualified to advise undergraduates" the burden of Freshman advising ought to be shifted to seniors in college. It is argued with all the freshness of a spring morning that seniors of high standing, "supervised and paid", would prove more valuable to the Yardlings than the present advisers who are widely admitted to be inadequate. But although no one can deny the almost criminal negligence that the officials of Harvard...
...keyed his speech to the general thesis: "Always it is important not to kill a lot of fine wheat in an effort to stamp out a few weeds."As to the value of long-established banker-client relationships, Banker Hall quoted Britain's famed McMillan Report to the effect that what Old England needed was'not less but more co-operation between finance and industry along...