Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...know how difficult it is to get words, I wish the music had been published earlier, but I have confidence in the musical ability of our class and I think that the rehearsals which we shall have next week will equal in number, and very likely surpass in effect, the rehearsals of '82. I hope that this explanation will serve as a partial justification in the eyes of my brother of '83, who is rightly disturbed at my very unfortunate tardiness...
...York Evening Post comments as follows on a letter from a correspondent touching the effect on the condition of the American universities of the small pay received by the professors: He contends that a man who has the stuff of a good professor in him, or, as "N. N." calls it, "the grit of spontaneous scholarship," will not allow the smallness of his salary to "cool his ardor or check his enthusiasm," and he points to the vigor and industry of the German professors as showing how little effect poverty really has or ought to have on the quality...
...gatherings have always been marked by a spirit of lively cordiality, which might be expected of college classmates coming together after years of separation to renew their friendships and recall the scenes and associations of their youth. There was no rowdyism or gross misconduct at these gatherings, and the effect of the punch has rarely been made manifest, except now and then, in the case of some newly-made Bachelor of Arts, who in that youthful exuberance incident to his acquiring a sheepskin, lost control of his appetite and his legs Such exhibitions have been exceedingly rare, however, and they...
...seldom represented in these boisterous gatherings, its members being kept too busy with their exercises in the theatre to allow of recreative feasting. The outgoing class will join the alumni at dinner this year for the first time in the history of the institution, giving its members in effect a year's advancement toward the dignified maturity so prized by the individual alumnus. - [Transcript...
...Sinderen to the rear of the boat now gives Columbia a four sitting together that it would be well nigh impossible to duplicate for uniformity in style and general excellence... The work done by the crew during the two months they have been in the boat, has had the effect of perfecting them in uniformity of time, and there is plenty of 'lift' to the boat when on the stroke...