Word: effectively
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Beginning with the Class of 1955, the Committee recommends that the full program take effect. Every undergraduate will then be required to take at least three GE courses, one each in Humanities, Natural, and Social Sciences, before the end of his sophomore year. (The "sections" of the present distribution program would be eliminated...
Distribution has been in effect for just 40 years, and it has changed four times. Its purpose has, been to provide "breadth" in education, Wright explained, but since courses have not been designed for distribution, the program has not been too successful thus...
...Television was also viewed with alarm, by religious leaders. Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, in Christianity and Crisis, declared that the immediate effect of TV would be "a further vulgarization of our culture . . . Much of what is still wholesome in our life will perish under the impact of this new visual aid . . ." Niebuhr noted scornfully that "prize fights seem to be the best subjects of television...
Director Ford was apparently trying to develop a muscular yarn about the effect of innocence and helplessness on man's wickedness. Three escaping bank bandits, in Technicolor, stumble across a woman in childbirth, stranded in a covered wagon during a sandstorm. The crooks, all 15-minute eggs, immediately begin quaking with spasms of oldtime religion, secondhand paternal pride and firsthand conscience. One of the godfathers (Harry Carey Jr.) dies from exhaustion and a slight wound he picked up in the robbery. Another (Pedro Armendariz) breaks a leg and has to shoot himself. That leaves John Wayne and Baby; Mother...
Keen minds will have grasped by now the connection between all this and today's registration. But for undergraduate politicians and men below Group 8, here are a few words of explanation. Today, in Memorial Hall, everybody from A to Z is performing an operation which, in effect, is another op'nin' of another show. A few swift, sure strokes of your pen, and you have begun to play your part in that great annual drama of education known as the Spring Term...