Word: effective
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Saturday the Nine won the first victory in the series for the College championship, defeating Dartmouth by a score of 5 to 2. The Dartmouth men were extremely hospitable in their entertainment and impartial in applause. Rundlett pitched with excellent effect, and was well supported by Cram behind the bat. Thayer played finely at second base, and made several brilliant fly-catches. Winsor pitched well, and Nunn made some fine stops; Coolidge, however, carried off the fielding honors for Harvard by putting out three men and assisting six times, including two double plays. The Dartmouth Nine is an extremely strong...
...being of open timber-work, as is the case in University. The halls and recitation-rooms, professors' apartments and lecture-rooms, will all be furnished with an upright sheathing of ash, four feet high, and beaded with moulded cap and base, producing an inside finish of very fine effect...
...requirements for parts were lowered, and nothing more done. But by the new system new inducements to work have been offered to these men, - the new grades, "honorable mention" and magna cum laude, have been established, and summa cum laude, an honor which heretofore has had very nearly no effect at all, will now influence the work of perhaps seven men. So, instead of giving less encouragement, the College offers stronger inducements to study to the men who would now get Commencement parts...
...effect of the new system on the "middle class," the moderately good scholars, it is asserted that these men will be encouraged to take "soft" electives and to work for marks. This, apparently, is the only sound objection that has been offered; but the writer does not seem to realize that this is an evil, not of the new system merely, but of any honor-system whatever. So long as honors are offered men are likely to neglect their real gain in working for them. It must be borne in mind that an honor-system necessarily starts with the supposition...
...system, then, will tend in a few cases to increase good work; in many it will have no effect; in many others studying for marks and a direct decrease of true scholarship will be the result...