Word: effectiveness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...early church, he said, owed its splendid organization, its magnificent hierarchy to Rome; but all that was permanently vital and formative came from Greece. When Christianity was still young, the strong literary spirit of the Greeks had a decided effect on it. Thus their elegant rhetoric soon put an end to the spontaneous prophesying which was common in the first days of the church, and made way for the preaching of modern times. It used to be thought that the Christian church was an entirely new phenomenon; but this is far from true. It is only unique in its idea...
...Montague Chamberlain, Recorder of the University, has resigned his office, the resignation to go into effect at once. Mr. Chamberlain has served as Ass't. Sec'y. and as Recorder, when the title of the office was changed, for the past five or six years. Mr. Cram, Ass't. to the Dean, will fill Mr. Chamberlain's position for the present...
...especially the front-piece, "The Veteran's Last Fight," painted expressly for Outing. It would be hard to imagine a tamer fight. It is a picture of a wild hog with two dogs on him and three or four more looking on with a sleepy kind of interest. The effect is almost absurd. The illustrations of "A Comedy of Counterplots" are the worst in the number; one is a fanciful portrait of two men dancing hand in hand in a most unnatural position. It would be far pleasanter to have appearances left to the reader's imagination than to have...
...question of method is now receiving careful consideration, but whatever method be finally agreed upon, we think now, as both the Yale and Harvard representatives thought at the Dual League in 1890, that a change of so radical a nature ought not to go into effect at once, with the result of disqualifying students now at the University and eligible as members of athletic teams under the existing rules...
...Third. Because, even if the foregoing reasons be not accepted as conclusive, we confidently hold that such radical legislation should be prospective in its application, and that at least one year's notice should be given before carrying it into effect...