Word: effective
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Freshmen: "The effect of snow-storms upon the demand for walking-sticks...
...snowballing there are few chances that a man will be observed; what would be called serious disorder many times escapes notice. To be sure, when a man is detected, the authorities are not slow to award him his punishment, but thirty-two or sixty-four demerits have little effect on most men. Besides, the trifling nature of many cases renders the idea of any penalties absurd. It would be an unpleasant thing to have a public for profanity sent home, but a public for noise or ball-playing in the yard bears no odium with it. At the worst, such...
...chief advantage the new system will have over the old is that it will compel the students to plan for themselves. This will have the same good effect in college that it has in the outside world, where men who find their judgment a safe guide in some things are likely to trust to it in others rather than to public opinion. College, at present, by no means causes such independence of thought as one would naturally expect...
...False Shame," which has for some time been the attraction at this theatre, is a comedy deserving of great praise for simplicity of plot, grace of language, and especially for the naturalness and effect with which all its situations and stage-business have been arranged. To these latter merits, we think, it owes its success; for there is but one character of importance in the piece, - that of Lord Chilton. This part was assumed by Mr. Barron, and we regard it as one of the best efforts ever made by that gentleman in comedy. Although forced, from the necessities...
...Baron Munchausen to a "Truthful James." Neither do we think that the possibility of mistakes belong exclusively to the undergraduate, and that the graduate is entirely exempt from them. Probably a student may be biased in his statement. Do not the existing rules have a tendency to produce this effect? "Call a man a thief, and he'll steal." The student knows that his assertion, instead of being considered true till proven false, is regarded false until proven true. This seems manifestly an unfair, not to say discourteous, method of treating him. Why should one man's testimony in this...