Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will choose. It has been urged more than once both by authorities and outside observers that the large classes now entering college injure it both intellectually and socially more than they benefit it pecuniary, and that the now almost total loss of class fellowship is working a bad effect upon the majority of men who graduate. Unfortunately this is too true. In the smaller establishments of learning where the classes are limited to one hundred or less, the men amalgamate, so to speak, together, and the metal of their mind is in consequence such that when any important question comes...
...dependence upon the single bullet and the skill which putting it in the right place necessitates, has a tendency to give the rifleman a like precision of ideas. In order to attain any considerable degree of skill it is essential that he should be a good reasoned. Distances, effect of the atmosphere and wind, are among the points to be considered. If the shot is to be made at any kind of game, the speed at which it is moving must, of course, be noted. Unfortunately in the Northern States there is comparatively little game worthy the attention...
...faculty of Trinity College have published schemes of study modifying and enlarging the present curriculum, which have been approved by a committee of the corporation and are intended to take effect in the fall. One fourth of the work in the last two years of the bachelor of arts course is made elective, and the elections are given a wide range. Two courses of study, one of three and one of four years, are provided for the degree of bachelor of science including advanced mathematics, science, laboratory work, etc. A fourth course, in letters, is meant for non-technical students...
...Boston Globe waxes facetious over an imaginary meeting of the boat club which passed resolutions to the effect that John L. Sullivan, Morrill, of the Bostons, and others are not graduates of the university...
...MILE WALKwas next on the programme with a field of five entries. The heat seemed to effect the pace of the men, especially that of Bemis, who only finished a poor third. The time was not fast and Meredith of Yale, who won made the distance in 7m. 33 1-5s., with Norris...