Word: effective
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Their aim is at once to put the new institution in a higher grade than any other college in the country, and, to effect this, they intend only to offer such instruction as does not usually come within the limits of an undergraduate's course. The chief object is, not to enable boys to forestall the regular work of a professional school in order that they may begin their practice at an early age, but to promote learning by encouraging young graduates to continue their studies. By offering large salaries and the prospect of having students who are intelligent...
...Yale crew, which had been selected with especial reference to the decisions of the Judges, was stone-deaf, to a man; consequently the bloodcurdling yells of the savages had not the least effect upon it. Too near-sighted to observe the distress of Vassar, they were quick in noticing Harvard forge ahead, and, making a desperate spurt, soon lapped our crew...
...mine host was admitted, it was decided by two of the most determined of our party to try the last resort, that of coot-shooting on the Point. In this undertaking even the elements combined against us; for on one occasion the eclipse of the moon had such an effect on the tide as to leave the harbor a mass of mud at the time appointed for sailing; and on another, a storm threatening, our prudent skipper would not put to sea. Space fails me to relate how, balked in all our plans of sport, the party at length resorted...
...have received an anonymous article for publication, which its author will not, of course, see in our columns; but which deserves some notice on account of its object. The subject of impure conversation in college is one that to be handled effectively requires both abilities as a writer and a thorough knowledge of those to whom it is addressed. No mere decrying against a lamentable fact can be of any possible use, and threats are worse than idle. Our columns are open to any able pen in the interests of reform, but we must know the hand that holds...
...Erie and Grand Trunk Railroads, and have had more or less experience in Cambridge horse-cars off the track, but never was so jolted in my life before. Every bone in my body is apparently dislocated. In agony I shout "Whoa" to the horse, but with no effect. I turn around and entreat the boy to stop the animal. Like an idiot that he is, he only repeats, "Shoe blacking," and persists in whipping the galloping brute. My eye-glasses shake off, and become a total wreck in the bottom of the gig. The sun is very...