Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After six years of debate this Council has taken the step of leaving NSA. But we advocate eventual return. We are resigning temporarily in order that Harvard's name, which the NSA flashes quite eagerly, should not be misused. We want certain procedural changes, but to effect them from within the organization is either impossible or impractical. Harvard's withdrawal, we are hoping, will be a glass of cold water. But we are not stopping there. A complete report of our reasons for withdrawal is being sent to every one of the 350 member colleges...
Myron P. Gilmore, Chairman of the History Department, was more optimistic, asserting that he "presumes the measure will have some encouraging effect." However, Gilmore added that the requirement of History 99 for honors juniors and seniors possibly could limit the future popularity of course reduction...
...that it follows the path of classical rectitude which soars so in Bach. Happily, these works are devoid of the more histrionic and sentimental aspects of Teutonic picture making which plagued so many of Feininger's contemporaries. Feininger's concern is to sing rather than to cry out. The effect, in a painter, is becoming...
Administrative changes designed to provide "an easier, more effective way to obtain course reduction" are now being put into effect, Edward T. Wilcox, Director of Advanced Standing, said yesterday...
...from the novel Cadenza by Ralph Kusack. Each is an episode about childhood in Ireland full of color and suspense. There are times when Kusack's grammar gets the better of the reader, but at least the prose is rarely flat. Description procedes with abrupt transitions and gives an effect resembling the flicker in old movies, but the technique suits the generally continuous action and falters only in a few waiting scenes...