Word: effective
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been made, a permanent system of national banks, under federal control, was established by the National Currency Act of 1863. The success of this measure was largely due to Mr. McCulloch, then Comptroller of the Currency. Secretary Chase at first disapproved. In 1864 the bill that is in effect today was enacted, and 700 national banks were organized. The state institutions were at first somewhat reticent about changing their charters, fearing inconsistency on the part of the federal government, or hostile legislation by Congress, but their hesitation was soon overcome. Since that time the number of national banks has multiplied...
...with the social problem in the poverty aspect, we must go beyond maintaining charity organizations. We must stop importing poverty, and we must stop creating poverty, by making it impossible for the industrial organizations of our country to continue their present methods of securing cheap employment regardless of the effect upon the employed...
...agree that this is a time of storm and stress--an age of academic read-justment and reform. The new policies as to college work have gone into effect. They should result in stimulating a wider culture and a higher efficiency. If the word culture does not, the word efficiency must appeal to every young American. And every Harvard undergraduate should ponder well the demonstrated fact that without the attainment of the requisite power over intellectual problems by concentrated work, he can hardly expect to reach high place in after life. It does not make so much difference...
...agreeable dalliance of College society while they were undergraduates and then in their professional schools would turn to their life work, taking there high rank and attaining in the world of men immediate success. This was reinforced in their minds by the gossip of their elders to the effect that first scholars in college drifted into the obscurity of the ill-paid school-teacher or the unknown country parson. The fallacy of this belief and the danger of this prejudice is pointed out in two of the leading articles in this December issue. And new ideals of fore-college work...
...classes are advised to reject the proposed constitution in order to give an opportunity for this procedure. This resolution shall not come into effect if the two classes to vote on Tuesday ratify the proposed constitution...