Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parietal rule concerning House guests has gone into effect, and with it goes a liberal spirit that is the direct antithesis of the in-famous "two women" regulation. It incorporates a practicable philosophy worthy of the Harvard tradition...
Parietal rules which went into effect yesterday show a certain amount of variation among the seven Houses as to the application of them, although the rules were voted as uniform for the whole House unit...
...family life and social welfare which the changes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries had brought to the front. While the present trends of constructive work in the direction of social amelioration may be less visibly and consciously inspired by religious and ethical considerations and more by the effect to reconcile competitive forces on a materialistic and economic basis, the fact remains that Professor Peabody's zeal and initiative, in days when the existing order of society was less generally open to question that it is today, had much to do with stimulating interest in social problems and with awakening...
...eyes of the academic world are focused on Wisconsin where there is being waged a battle which, while perhaps not vital in and of itself, is momentous in its implications. The effect of the replacement of Dr. Glenn Frank by another man of liberal tendencies might cause no great effect on the educational life of the state university but the establishment of precedent by the displacement of a liberal president of a supposedly-liberal university through the whim of the supposedly-progressive governor of that state would be a telling blow to educational freedom in America...
There can be no doubt of the right of the state regents to remove Dr. Frank. But his removal without substantial grounds could have no effect but to sterilize the academic profession. As Mr. Lippman points out without security there can be no freedom. The effect would be to make boards of regents and trustees, usually composed of men of material rather than academic minds, the guiding and controlling force in intellectual education. Soon the universities would be as the legislatures, at the mercy of pressure groups. Scientific education would be outlawed. Advancement in knowledge would be stifled...