Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years and is in accordance with our desire to regard attendance on the part of upper classmen in good standing not as an end in itself, but as a means to an end. Under this policy, instead of taking disciplinary action on a holiday cut as such, the effect of the extension of a holiday on the student's record is considered. For example, upper classmen are not ordinarily placed on probation for unsatisfactory records at November or April, and even at mid years all students with unsatisfactory records are not necessarily placed on probation, since each case is treated...
These advertisements were in all probability printed merely as jokes and nothing more but the stimulus that prompted them was considerably deeper than these externals show. The law went into effect ten years ago, when the students of average college ago today were too young to appreciate its full meaning. Yet, the theory that those who never drank liquor could be educated not to want it has apparently been shattered, either because the education on this subject has been none too good or because the taste for liquor cannot be destroyed...
...Business School as well as in various courses in the college. It may well be that the experiment at the School of Education by its training of future secondary school teachers and administrators in new uses of motion pictures, will in the long run have an even more significant effect on its broad development...
...famous Oriental sage quietly slipped out of town last Friday leaving his public in the lurch and since his disappearance many rumors as to his whereabouts have reached Cambridge. One report was that he was seen sneaking around Wall Street late Friday night. Another, from Chicago, was to the effect that he was seen on the corner of 39th and Halstead, straightening out matters with disappointed Windy City fans who are still grumbling about the Cubs' defeat...
...smooth, hard surface of La Fayette's memoirs, but to the Whitlock intentions and method: "I have tried to look through his eyes at the men he knew and events. ... I have not made up any conversations or rearranged any events with an eye to dramatic effect." Biographer Whitlock's eclectic synthesis, whatever it may do to the real La Fayette, emphasizes the not very astonishing fact that his guiding principle was liberty-love. Only in the dullest of classrooms will the Whitlock style of biography not seem to produce a tedious ache...