Word: effective
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...right kind to oppose to Harvard's batsmen. The game was well contested through eight innings; in the ninth two earned runs were made by the New Bedfords. The injury which Ernst received in the Live Oak game rendered him very lame, and had a natural effect on his pitching. Fessenden batted well. Thayer, Latham, Nunn, and Holden excelled in the field, as did Mutrie for the New Bedfords...
...desire to discourage the Glee Club that prompts this article, - far from it; but may it not be true that the Club undertakes to render music that is too difficult for it, or, at least, music that would require constant rehearsing to sing with proper effect? Any one would prefer an easy song correctly rendered, to a difficult glee spoiled by inability or want of practice...
...those who refuse to acquaint us with our marks at all, we feel sure that this final growl on our part is pardonable. We would recommend that the College press be still more chary of its praise, if the adulation of a three-line editorial has such a disastrous effect...
Perhaps the saddest of all rules, if we consider the effect it would have upon society men, is the following...
...least, that we heard from a friend of an instructor in a deservedly popular elective who announced his intention of making the course as difficult as possible, and of giving a hard examination-paper "for the purpose of thinning the elective." That this intention has been carried into effect those will certify who were tortured by the exceedingly difficult and fatiguing paper given...