Word: result
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...correspondent of the Boston Herald in precipitately announcing that a decision had been arrived at, is not very commendable. His false news is likely to be copied widely over the country, and, if by any possibility the faculty do not decide to make the contemplated change, considerable embarrassment will result to the college before the erroneous impression can be entirely removed from people's minds...
...Even the faculty would have been glad to effect a change, had any suggested itself to them. As they did nothing, the students began to move in the matter. Seeing that the cause was a good one, the faculty had a conference with members of the upper classes. The result was very satisfactory, and a committee of undergraduates was selected to draw up a new scheme for ranking, to be submitted to the faculty. This committee did its work so well that their report was substantially adopted by the governing board, and the students are now happy...
...successful outcome of this conference work at Princeton leads us to hope that similar beneficial results may ensue from the conferences which are so soon to be tried here. Everything so far is progressing smoothly, three out of the four classes have elected their delegates, a date for meeting has been appointed by the faculty, and we have only a week to wait before learning the result of the preliminary conference...
...hoped that the project may be carried out successfully. Eighty-five made the attempt without success, and, we are constrained to believe, made a grave mistake in losing so rare an opportunity for an evening of social enjoyment. Class feeling is slowly dying out at Harvard, a result attributable to many causes, and class dinners are among the few things left that can momentarily rekindle the smoldering embers of the old-time enthusiasm. We shall be greatly surprised if there is any difficulty in securing fifty names from among the members of the junior class, the number...
...list admitted additions, the work in the Rhetoric would at once become a source of interest as aiming at a comprehensive knowledge of our prominent secondary writers. But if the list is to remain simply as an irrevocable adjunct to the more theoretical work in prescribed English, the result can only be that it will be treated as such, and that its purpose will be unattained...