Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...matter of curiosity to see how immediate has been the effect of the measures adopted by the Tennis Association to abolish the "shacker" nuisance. It is true that there has been no attempt to make and enforce any rule. The simple request that a certain regulated scale of fees be adopted, and that no boys be employed except when found at certain specified stations, seems to have had the desired result. Not only have the numbers of idle small boys who used to infest every part of the college grounds greatly diminished, but those that have remained seem to have...
...Association of Collegiate Alumnae has issued a complete and thorough list of health questions among the women graduates of college in order to obtain full information regarding the effect of college life and studies upon the health of women students. It is the first earnest effort made in this direction, and ought to reach a valuable result...
...making it known, or if they are still deliberating, the quicker they reach some result the better. The proposal that the freshman game with Yale should decide the question has met with such a sensible and evident opposition on all hands, that it ought not to have any effect in the final decision; the entire question rests on whether there will be room for all the classes around the tree. If, after considering this question, the class day committee think there will not be room, the freshmen will yield gracefully. The best and shortest way out of the difficulty appears...
...secretary of the navy has received a communication from Harvard to the effect that, at Professor Agassiz's suggestion, it would name Mr. George H. Richards, a graduate of Cambridge University, England, and stroke of its crew, as referee. The stand of colors for the race this year will be provided by Harvard, and are designed by Ford, of New Haven.-[Courant...
...case. The Glee Club this year has been much below the standard of former years. It is ridiculous to suppose that a university as large as is Harvard cannot produce a better club. The club is entirely too small to render our popular choruses with anything like the proper effect. As far as the college owing anything to the club is concerned, we think it the right of the college to expect the open-air concerts from the club. By giving such concerts, the club earns the right to expect its own regular concerts to be patronized. While...