Word: effect
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Dodge began his lecture by a consideration of the effect of the geology of the United States on its agriculture. Our ancestors, when the Atlantic strip stretching from Maine to Florida was first discovered, settled where the agricultural conditions were good. Owing to the barrier formed by the Appalachian Mountains, the early colonists remained east of these mountains until this area was thickly settled. The unity of interests, brought about by this close association of the colonies, made possible a successful revolution against the mother-country. As the pressure increased within this narrow strip of land, emigration pushed out through...
Commercially, no better example of the effect of geological conditions can be seen, than the case of New York. A commercial centre is always at the junction of two or more lines of transportation. New York has not only the Hudson with its tributaries, and the railroads which follow the rivers, but also a good egress to the sea. In former geological ages the Hudson was merely a river valley. Now, however, by the tipping of the land through which it flowed, the Hudson has become the deep sea way, which has made New York the greatest commercial centre...
...where he follows the ghost from the stage, holding the hilt of his sword in front of him; and again where, having stabbed Polonius, he turns to the Queen demanding "Is it the King?" Mr. Irving presents varying and sometimes. grotesque attitudes one after another, and the highest pictorial effect by M. Mounet Sully is the fluttering exit after the "Words, words, words," speech to Polonius...
...Committee on Athletics has, the report comes to us, faith in football, and believes that the evils of which so much just complaint is heard, can, if a conscientious effort is made to effect the desired reforms, be eradicated from the game. If, on the other hand, after a fair trial, such a result is not accomplished, but football and its abuses are found to be inseparable, the committee, we are told, says the game must go. In this position the committee has the hearty support of every lover of football. A fair trial is what is asked...
...venture to protest against what seems to me an injustice done to the Harvard correspondent of the Boston Advertiser by Professor de Sumichrast's communication of yesterday and by the editorial in the CRIMSON. However unfortunate in its effect the Advertiser report may have been, I do not see how it could convey to an unprejudiced reader any impression of malicious or dishonorable intent on the part of the reporter. As a matter of simple justice to the gentleman who has been so attacked, I wish to quote the article in question; for I think that a calm and unprejudiced...