Word: effective
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...room which he desires to dispose of must make a statement to that effect at the Bursar's office. A list will be made, probably in June, of the rooms whose holders do not intend to occupy them; applications will be received for these rooms precisely as they are received before the annual allotment; a drawing will then be made by lot and the result will be published. During the summer this process will be repeated whenever there are rooms put up at the Bursar's office. The main objection to the plan is its inconvenience. The charges of unfairness...
...they have derived so much benefit, and do the same thing. It would be much less expensive and, as it seems to us, much more picturesque. At Columbia, in the exhibitions given by the "Philolexism," a literary society, the orators and members appear in caps and gowns, and the effect is most charming. A great many of the poorer, that is to say, the more indigent, students, are compelled to go to a great expense in order to procure dress-suits, - sometimes much greater than they can afford. The caps and gowns would not cost more than ten dollars...
...crew. The revolution has already begun, and great care should be taken at the outset to establish a high standard of work for those who are candidates for places in the boat. It is not only necessary for our success in this next race, but it will have its effect on the boating men who come up to take the places of those now on the crew...
...Student is more interesting than usual. It contains an article upon "Thackeray and George Eliot," - a new departure from the eternal "Thackeray and Dickens" of past years, for which we cannot sufficiently thank it. It publishes a formal set of resolutions recently passed by the Sophomore class, to the effect that Freshmen shall be permitted to carry canes on and after March...
...exponent of the popular feeling among undergraduates as regards false representations in public journals, that it arouses in me a desire to attempt an exposition of the sources of these evil communications, and to suggest some means by which at least a diminution of such occurrences may be effected. And it is only because the writer sees that the increase of such publications is likely to effect some serious results that he feels at liberty to broach the subject...