Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...appointed for this afternoon and tomorrow will be made to Gloucester and Pigeon Cove instead of to Plymouth as formerly announced. The meet will start at 1 P. M. from in front of University. All who intend going will please drop word to that effect at No. 1 Holworthy...
...life and ways of thinking have acquired certain common characteristics from the mere fact of the dormitory system, while at the other this element of college feeling is entirely lacking. How great an influence this institution has is more easily understood than expressed. That it would be the immediate effect of co-education to destroy this element of college life at Harvard, we do not believe; that such would be the ultimate result seems very probable. But that such a result would be altogether an unmixed evil, provided that for the narrower college spirit a broader university spirit were substituted...
...afford a vent to the surplus energy of youth, which formerly expended itself in muscular undertakings of a more destructive nature. There is, also, probably far less lounging in rooms during leisure hours than prevailed before the in-door gymnastics and the exciting field sports came into fashion. The effect on the health of the students, it cannot be doubted, has been extremely beneficial. Games in the open air, which call for the utmost vigilance, self-possession, promptness and pluck in those who take part in them, are not without an effect on character. They are a mental and moral...
...down the valley. In the summer, when the hillsides are covered with verdure, and the sun, just dropping behind the western hill, lights up the valley with its farewell glories, the poetic part of the co-ed nature receives a stimulus which forms a powerful antidote to the prosaic effect of Calculus and Psychology...
...doubted that the utterances of such men as President Eliot and President Barnard in favor of college athletics have carried great weight with the public mind. The almost universal readiness of college students themselves to quietly acquiesce in all reasonable restriction cannot but have had a most favorable effect. The danger of carrying the reaction to an extreme was of course the one most to be feared, and this danger now seems very nearly to have passed...