Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Science Monthly, the most prominent organ of the opponents of classical culture, has devoted a very large proportion of its space to the subject, treating it however from a purely practical standpoint. These articles, of course, present the case from the most extreme "scientific" point of view and their effect is diminished by the fact that their writers have in most cases allowed their zeal to get the better of their discretion. At the risk of offering old news to our readers, we will give a short account of the history of the contest in Germany, clipping mainly from Prof...
...seems very unjust toward the undergraduate classes for that department of the university to abstain from the races on the Charles until there is an accumulation of old and excellent oarsmen from which to form a crew. Moreover I can not help thinking that this will have a bad effect generally on the interest in rowing taken by undergraduates. The one cause of enthusiasm in a crew is its desire and chance of winning. Likewise the cause of a lack of enthusiasm and a consequent indifference among the members of a crew in the conviction that there is no chance...
...expressed himself in favor of such a move at present he did not wish to commit himself in favor of it. As to the first alternative, that seemed at present to be highly objectionable. The second was the measure which the faculty was striving to bring about. To effect this purpose a meeting of delegates from college faculties had recently been held in New York. A committee from that assembly would meet today when it was expected that, without doubt, all the colleges, with the possible exception of Yale, whose purpose no man could fathom, would unite in an agreement...
...recent item to the effect that Captain Perkins, of the University crew, was about to organize an auxiliary crew in order to accept the challenge of the University of Pennsylvania again brings up the subject of forming auxiliary teams. There can be no doubt that it would be greatly to the advantage of all the teams to have these auxiliary teams to pick from; and the advantage would be in several ways, it would be an inducement to more men to try for a place on the teams as they would have some hope of playing in matches with outside...
...prepared boys surpassing during college life many of the well-prepared. In the freedom of college-life differences between individuals in respect to ambition, strength of will, physical and mental alertness, and habits created by luxury on the one hand, or poverty on the other, produce much greater effect than they do among boys who are under constant observation and pressure at school...