Word: effective
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Today the nine plays its second championship game of the season. The victory over Brown last week has had the effect of encouraging the team and the college at large at a time when such encouragement is most gladly received. Although the Amherst nine is considered much stronger than our first opponent, if the team plays with the earnestness and vim which it displayed in the game with Brown last week, a close, and we hope a victorious game will be the result. The contest will be interesting and exciting, and will undoubtedly deserve the support which it is sure...
This is a very fair specimen of gloom of another kind than that used by the "sea" poets. It has the weirdness and ghastliness of a silly ghost story told in full daylight, and produces about as much real effect on the hearer...
...devoted to those productions which have stood the test of years and proved their excellence. Third, fifty years ago almost every one was accustomed to devote a part of each day to the Bible, so that most people knew by heart a considerable portion of it. The general effect of this is very apparent, and can be very clearly seen in the writings of authors who have made the Bible a study. The neglect nowadays of the formalities of religion, accompanied by a decrease in familiarity with this book, has been a great loss in literary education...
Brown, with the exception of Doron and Basset, played a weak fielding game, and were unable to bat Winslow to any effect, although Seagrave and Basset hit heavily. Harvard played a sharp and brilliant fielding game...
...ties, to the college whose name appears most frequently in ties. Under these conditions this cup must be competed for annually, as long as the association exists, and can never pass permanently into the hands of any college. Thus it will be seen that the rumor to the effect that, if we win the cup again this year, it will become our property for ever, is unfounded. We must not, however, on this account, strive any less earnestly for another victory, as we confidently hope that Harvard will again show her superiority in track athletics, although crippled by the loss...