Word: effects
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...good a record is not shown twenty years hence, it will be laid to the pessimistic effect of the Nation...
...Faculty. The only objection, as far as we have heard, to having the list of examinations published thus early, is that it would seem like an encouragement to cramming. It seems to us that the early publication of the list would have an exactly opposite effect, - that it would do much to prevent cramming. If students knew the order of their examinations in time, they would carefully review the subjects on which they were to be first examined, instead of cramming up a mass of facts on finding, when the list was posted, that they had but two days...
...then of all foreign habiliments, deliver them over to those whose minds are fitted only for such shackles, and oblige them at once to remove what is given them from the land. Then let us collect in a large heap that peculiarly formed furniture which exerts such a debasing effect on the only great thing in us, set fire to the mass, and henceforth devote ourselves, body and soul, to our minds. By these rigorous methods, and by these methods only, can we hope to avoid the treacherous shoals that we now know are before...
...School the most important event was the establishment of a new professorship and of an admission examination, the latter to take effect in the year 1877-78. In giving the reasons for this innovation, it is shown that, in addition to its necessity in a first-class school, an institution which has real prestige and power will make a money profit by raising its standard, the improved class of students greatly enlarging the reputation and influence of the institution. Here, again, the Western States have increased their representation, supplying now about one fourth of the students, while New England supplies...
...resolution was made to the effect that the class directors be requested to have immediate action taken for the improvement of the fare at Memorial Hall...