Word: affect
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Society gave its nineteenth annual banquet in Memorial Hall. Over 100 guests were present. On Monday the general Faculty announced the adoption of a plan for a system of honors similar to the English and Canadian systems. It will go into effect in the fall of 1915, and will affect the Junior and Senior classes. Another important announcement made on the same day was that of the recommendation by the Senior Council, with the approval of the Faculty, of an Honor System for the Academic Department. It is to be voted on Friday, April 3, a ratification of three-fourths...
...greatly increased since the inauguration of the rule. It is hoped that the plan may be carried out with as favorable results here. Its execution will be greatly facilitated by the co-operation of all those now playing on the Musical Clubs, but the new method will most directly affect 1917 and the entering class...
These meetings will in no way affect the holding of the University Forums, which will be continued this year as last for the discussion of undergraduate questions. It is planned to hold the first Forum sometime next week...
...diseases of "bad work and insignificant work" from which he believes the novel of this country to be suffering. The article contains sound distinctions and acute observations, but it is marred by some pretentiousness in tone and certain defects of style. These last are such as perennially affect the cleverer kinds of undergraduate criticism--the use of a vocabulary sometimes merely precious, sometimes employed with an imperfect sense of idiom. But such annoyances are perhaps only inevitable growing pains, and they do not cancel one's satisfaction in such evidences of intellectual activity as Mr. Seldes's eassy undoubtedly presents...
...before, it has become a University Register, for a new department which is entitled "The Graduate Schools" has been added and is concerned with the various activities among the graduate students. The incorporation of this department in the Register is very gratifying, for the interest and activities it represents affect quite as many men as the undergraduate sections of the volume. Another pleasing feature of the present volume is the new department, "Scholarship," which has to do with Phi Beta Kappa and other scholarly activities and attainment. With these additions and the enlargement of the old departments, the Register rivals...