Word: affect
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...same remarks apply to certificates of admission as well as to certificates of graduation. Of course it is not desirable to lower the present high standard of some college to an equality with the standards of others, but rather to raise the lower standards. While such a change might affect with injury the prosperity of the high-standard colleges, yet to the colleges at large it would be a benefit, and, of course, general good is always to be preferred to particular good...
...Spanish 1, 2 and 3, pronunciation is to affect considerably the marks for the year...
...peculiarities as a naval school. But we think this complaint is unfounded. The naval officer of the present must have a far broader education to enable him to perform his duties intelligently and keep informed in the discoveries of the scientific that are constantly being and which so vitally affect naval interests, than was required by the heroes of fifty or even twenty-five years...
...eminent men connected with the august assembly to which he himself belongs. This will undoubtedly be very interesting reading for our subscribers, but we confess that we fail to see exactly what bearing this list of notables has upon the subject under discussion. We do not think the facts affect the position of the CRIMSON. We attempted to show that to exclude Negroes, simply because they were Negroes, was manifestly unfair, and could not react with good effect upon Harvard, and this point we still maintain...
...Loud, we should rather say it did; does he hake any more noises like that, we want to know? "Well," says Snodkins, "it may seem rather steep at first, but I have got used to it; had to, in fact. After a few months in college, noises affect one very little. I used to think they were terrible, but bless you I don't mind 'em now at all." We begin to have a dim apprehension that college life is not so quiet after all, and we ask Snodkins to tell us more about the subject. "Well," says...