Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students of Cornell University recently held a mass meeting for the purpose of considering the advisability of consolidating the interests of the various athletic organizations. Resolutions were adopted to this effect, and plans were discussed for improvement in athletics. The president of the college then addressed the meeting on the subject of boating, -would that our President might take such active interest in our sports, as to speak directly to us and not at us! He referred to his own connection with athletics during his collegiate days at Yale, and of the deep interest he took in them, especially...
...game last Saturday' I was struck with the difference between the two contesting teams ; whereas the Princeton men did not seem to play in the rush-line with any more vigor and earnestness than our men, still they so surpassed our rushers, in system, that the greatest difference in effect was discernable. Each man on the Priceton team seemed not only to know where he himself should be at a given time, but also where every other man in the team was and should be. And this seems to me, to be directly due to the fact that...
...however small, is not pleased to find that during his absence his landlady, in a sudden mania of spring-cleaning, has ruthlessly dragged out and dusted all his cherished volumes, and has replaced them perfectly regardless of size or shape, with that want of an eye to the general effect which is so characteristic of the average lodging-housekeeper...
...rooming in the north entry of Thayer have sent in a petition to the Faculty to the effect that the gas may be left burning in their halls throughout the night, for which they agree to pay on their term bill. We hope that it will be granted...
...whether these can rightly be called recreations, arguing that they require (and get) certainly more physical and not infrequently more mental exertion than the regular college duties. They argue further that the demands that such sports make on the body and mind for strength and endurance have an injurious effect. Of course there are extremes in all things, and too much time and brains spent on such recreations as base ball or foot ball are badly spent. Still, acknowledging the evils of extreme cases, one can certainly say with truth that good active exercise, which calls into play the muscles...